Greta Gerwig Quotes

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Greta Gerwig

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 4, 1983

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.

Greta Gerwig

I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.

Greta Gerwig

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

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

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I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

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I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

Greta Gerwig

I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition.

Greta Gerwig

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.

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 something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

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I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.

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It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.

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

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I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in front of me, but movies seemed like they were delivered, wholly made, from Zeus's head or something.

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

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I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year of The Woman.' I think that we all just know in our hearts they're underrepresented. But that doesn't mean that there aren't amazing moments.

Greta Gerwig

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

Greta Gerwig

I was a massive Whit Stillman fan. Groupie. I would have done anything for him.

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, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing.

Greta Gerwig

I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.

Greta Gerwig