Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

I appreciate the positivity of those 'year of the woman' articles - it's good to get that energy out there - but at the same time, in Hollywood it's not happening yet.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

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

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven't made a single movie about a woman.

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.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

There's nothing new about women playing pivotal parts or title roles in films. Women in strong characters have always been accepted. It has been this way for years.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

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

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

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

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

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

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.

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.

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

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

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

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.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.