Greta Gerwig Quotes

Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen.

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

Women are underrepresented and neglected in all aspects of the entertainment industry, so naturally, those of us who want to make a change use any opportunity to shine a light on someone when we can.

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

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

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

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.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.