We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema. — 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 to listen… — 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 I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide… — 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 Image
'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 Image
