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… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them… — 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
I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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 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'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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 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… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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
