“We used to see more interesting characters on screen in the 20s, 30s and 40s than we do now, and we allowed women to really embody all the contradictions that make up a human being. They could be the femme fatale, and then turn around and be the mother, and then turn around and be the seductress, and then turn around and be the saint, and we accepted that. They were complex human beings. Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men [as male writers], we do it because we don’t understand characters that aren’t ourselves and we aren’t willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters - and women, I think, terrify us. We tend to not write women as human beings. It’s cartoons we’re making now. And that’s a shame.”
— Paul Haggis. (Writer of Crash, Million Dollar Baby).