Greta Gerwig Quotes

I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

I think despite what we've seen on TV, people like seeing women and knowing about women's stories and their struggles and their truth. I think we've seen it in a lot of these shows - when there's a cast of all women, it does very well.

I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all.

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

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

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

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

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

It's been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don't have any shot of getting a theatrical release.