I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine. Linda Woolverton More Quotes by Linda Woolverton More Quotes From Linda Woolverton You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide. Linda Woolverton your-dreams dream people I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center. Linda Woolverton female differences writing The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just go crazy. Then, over the years - it takes years to write these things, to make these things come to pass - there are many, many, many drafts. For Maleficent, there were at least 15. Linda Woolverton crazy writing years For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy. Linda Woolverton writing boys people I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to. Linda Woolverton theater grew-up children They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes. Linda Woolverton forgiving children moving Even when I'm writing animation, I think of them as real people. I think of them as completely three-dimensional beings, even if it's a talking teapot. I don't think of them as one-dimensional drawn characters running around. Maybe that's why, to me, there's really no difference in writing the two - animation versus live action. Linda Woolverton real writing running
