Emily Browning Quotes

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

Roles for women need to be better written.

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

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

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Strong female leads are important.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.