Cinema Quote by Greta Gerwig

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

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

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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…

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You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings.

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I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of…

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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…

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I don't do well when I don't work.

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I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

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

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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…

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Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference…

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'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…

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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…

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