Greta Gerwig

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

When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big…

— Greta Gerwig

When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I…

— Greta Gerwig

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter…

— Greta Gerwig

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up…

— Greta Gerwig

For me, the French new wave is Truffaut and Rohmer. Godard I sometimes have trouble with because he's very much of a…

— Greta Gerwig

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

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,…

— Greta Gerwig

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

As an actor, I just go off the director. I never ask how big the part is. I don't look at it…

— Greta Gerwig

I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots…

— Greta Gerwig

Acting was always the first love, but a lot of people want to be actors, and my goal was, 'Come hell or…

— Greta Gerwig

I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film…

— Greta Gerwig

Everybody's got a dud. You can't get out of it. That's the price of admission: you'll get some duds. You'll get some…

— Greta Gerwig

I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies,…

— Greta Gerwig

I feel like movies are presents, and credits and fonts are bows and wrapping paper. I like everything to feel like it…

— Greta Gerwig

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work…

— Greta Gerwig

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

— Greta Gerwig

One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look…

— Greta Gerwig

I'm interested in the feeling of getting to zero after a play, like you're never going to do it again. That's a…

— Greta Gerwig

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

I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an…

— Greta Gerwig

I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year…

— Greta Gerwig

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and…

— Greta Gerwig

I think when you're a teenager, you always feel as if life is happening somewhere else - it certainly isn't happening to…

— Greta Gerwig

There's something very satisfying about old cameras because they're ingenious. I mean when you take them apart and actually see, 'Oh, this…

— Greta Gerwig

I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the…

— Greta Gerwig

I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear,…

— Greta Gerwig

I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don't have is particularly absurd because it's…

— Greta Gerwig

I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home -…

— Greta Gerwig

As a writer, I think I'm mainly interested in contemporary themes, so when I create my own stuff, it's inherently that. But…

— Greta Gerwig

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

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the…

— Greta Gerwig

I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style. I was one of two white girls, and I was part of…

— Greta Gerwig

There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to…

— Greta Gerwig

I'm not someone who's an immigrant who's struggling in that way, but between New York and L.A., I had someone tell me…

— Greta Gerwig

A lot of my friends are struggling. A lot of my friends didn't make movies, which was really hard and sad. I'm…

— Greta Gerwig

I love movies, but sometimes I think it's better for actresses not to be total cinephiles. You have to be able to…

— Greta Gerwig