I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat.… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I think I'm pretty committed to staying. I'm not committed to not doing big movies, but I am committed to continuing to… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share
