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Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

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

I write characters. Some of those characters are women.

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

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

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

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.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.