Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.
In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.
I never wanted to model myself on a female singer, which tells you a lot about my character. I didn't have a female role model. There just wasn't anybody around. I played with the boys and beat them at their own game.
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.
Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, the...
I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.
I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Hangover,' but I'd love to. If I did it it'd star Juliette Lewis, because she's the funniest woman in the world. She's my favorite actress on the planet. If we ...
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women....
Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm n...
The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendshi...
I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.
There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.
I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
