Tate Taylor Quotes

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that.

I think you leave your imprint on every screenplay. I like to bring my experience as a woman to all my female characters that hopefully makes them a little more layered and complex.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

I like playing interesting, complicated women.

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I love peeling away their layers to see what's underneath their skin, or secreted deep within their hearts.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You look at the pilot of 'Breaking Bad,' where there's so much depth to the character, you can't help but be invested when you watch.

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.