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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me.

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

Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.