Latest Geena Davis Quotes from Interviews

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• We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We don't want to create a ghetto where women have to do movies about women. To assume stories about women need to be told by a woman isn't necessarily true, just as stories about men don't need a male director.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Ghetto, Men

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids' books, I would write it in the books for the babysitter!

  Geena Davis

  Book, Writing, Important

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls. It's the 21st century, you know, let's go here. We have to show kids that boys and girls share the sandbox equally and do equally interesting things. We're teaching kids something that we have to try to get rid of later on. Why not just stop filling them with unconscious gender bias?

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Teaching, Kids

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I would say any film can be called feminist that has female characters who have agency in their life, that are in charge of their fate or do important things or take up half the space. I would consider a film feminist, I don't care what it's about, but if the cast was gender balanced, where it would be just as likely that the boss or the best friend or whoever was female. It's really as simple as showing women being in charge of their destiny and giving female characters a voice.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Fate, Simple

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should change that." Nothing happens. It's utterly stagnant.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, People, Female

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Leaving, Female

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

  Geena Davis

  People, Shining, Chance

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any sport at all, no matter how hard they tried to convince me to be on the girls' basketball team as the tallest kid in class.

  Geena Davis

  Basketball, Sports, Team

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

  Geena Davis

  Wish, My Favorite, Said

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women and diversity in all media, so TV, movies, eventually, digital, whatever you get into. That's the goal. We're using the same philosophy as my institute, which is to make it research-based and really try to work directly with filmmakers and content creators and move the needle. It's the only film festival in the world where the prizes are guaranteed distribution.

  Geena Davis

  Philosophy, Moving, Squares

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

  Geena Davis

  Exorcist, Knows

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I'm the mother of two daughters, one of whom is going to get possessed. It's really spooky and great. I'm shooting it right now. That's why I'm in Chicago. I wanted to tell you about the other direction that this trying-to-get-more-female-characters thing has taken, which is that I launched my own film festival last year.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Taken

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, People, Think Of Me

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

  Geena Davis

  Watches, Horror, Film

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

  Geena Davis

  Years, Two, Waiting

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• When I started watching Breaking Bad, I binge-watched it. I thought it was so good that I started to cry. It's the only time in my life I've been completely jealous, the only time. I was like, [imitates crying] "I want to do what Bryan Cranston gets to do. I want a part like that." [both laugh] Isn't that pathetic?

  Geena Davis

  Jealous, Laughing, Want

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.

  Geena Davis

  Swans, Degrees, Puff

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

  Geena Davis

  Simple, Long, Want

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• When I got pregnant, I told [Susan Sarandon ]. She said, "All right. I'm gonna tell you the thing to do when you're giving birth: Push like you're trying to win a prize, like you want to be the best patient he's ever had. He's going to give you a prize for winning that." So I did. [The doctor] said, "You are probably the best pusher I've had as a patient."

  Geena Davis

  Winning, Doctors, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm very competitive, I think.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it.

  Geena Davis

  Hero, Talking, Nuts

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

  Geena Davis

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I think it was page one - she says, "So my first line, I don't think we need that line. Or we could put it on page two. Cut this ..." And I was just like ... My jaw was to the ground.

  Geena Davis

  Cutting, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

  Geena Davis

  Aunt, Impact, Understanding

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.