Greta Gerwig

I think it's true of a lot of teenagers that you're convinced that life is happening somewhere else.

— Greta Gerwig

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

— Greta Gerwig

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

— Greta Gerwig

I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.

— Greta Gerwig

Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema.

— Greta Gerwig

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

— Greta Gerwig

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

— Greta Gerwig

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

— Greta Gerwig

I think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel…

— Greta Gerwig

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about…

— Greta Gerwig

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it…

— Greta Gerwig

I feel like, when I play characters, I create a space in myself that feels like the character and that doesn't go…

— Greta Gerwig

Nobody knows what you have in you until you've done it, so I just keep pushing those boundaries, and I figure it…

— Greta Gerwig

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you…

— Greta Gerwig

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

When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost…

— Greta Gerwig

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have…

— Greta Gerwig

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing…

— Greta Gerwig

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story…

— Greta Gerwig

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it…

— Greta Gerwig

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision…

— Greta Gerwig

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

I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and…

— Greta Gerwig

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

Greta Gerwig always seemed like a name that was mine. My mother did a good job.

— Greta Gerwig

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so…

— Greta Gerwig

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

— Greta Gerwig

I loved 'Moonlight.' I thought it was really beautiful. Really great.

— Greta Gerwig

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

— Greta Gerwig

I feel like I'm an actor that likes to have lots of points of connection.

— Greta Gerwig

I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us.

— Greta Gerwig

I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.

— Greta Gerwig

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

— Greta Gerwig

I sometimes have to turn off the fan part of my brain when I'm acting; otherwise, it would be terrible.

— Greta Gerwig

I feel so part of the filmmaking community. It's amazing how much people support each other.

— Greta Gerwig

I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in…

— Greta Gerwig

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than…

— Greta Gerwig

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

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and…

— Greta Gerwig

The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of…

— Greta Gerwig