Tessa Thompson Quotes

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

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.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.

One is always attracted to pieces of theatre with great roles for women.

I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.

I want men to be asking to play great female parts!

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

I am very keen to do a film that's female-led.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!