Greta Gerwig Quotes

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about identity. They're female empowerment stories. So I'm exploring that through my work.

I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I wouldn't push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.