Greta Gerwig Quotes

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Greta Gerwig

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 4, 1983

Woody Allen was the reason I wanted to move to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to make films. I felt that I understood his films, and I love them so much. When you're starting out, certainly, you have this sense of wanting to talk back to people who have influenced you, and I always wanted to talk back to Woody Allen.

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As a writer, I think I'm mainly interested in contemporary themes, so when I create my own stuff, it's inherently that. But as an actor, I would like to do lots of different things. I would love to play someone completely different from myself in a costume drama.

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I feel like I'm an actor that likes to have lots of points of connection.

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For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it makes you a strong director.

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I feel like a good pair of diamond studs goes a long way. They make everything look dressy, and you just seem more put together.

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Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat.

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I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us.

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I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.

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One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

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I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style. I was one of two white girls, and I was part of the younger company, which was called Touch of Style. And it was amazing. It gave me a different perception of dance and beauty because the other girls were mostly African-American and Latina.

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I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth.

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The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

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I feel like movies are presents, and credits and fonts are bows and wrapping paper. I like everything to feel like it was given a lot of time. I hate it when I watch movies, and it seems like they just went and picked a font and, like, called it a day.

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When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption.

Greta Gerwig

I feel like, when I play characters, I create a space in myself that feels like the character and that doesn't go away. Somehow, you carry that with you. You let it go, but a little piece of it remains.

Greta Gerwig

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

Greta Gerwig

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

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I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.

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I love movies, so getting to be in the conversation and meet some of my heroes has been so fun. It's just the most fun thing ever.

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Greta Gerwig always seemed like a name that was mine. My mother did a good job.

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