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" Acting was always the first love, but a lot of people want to be actors, and my goal was, 'Come hell or high water, I will be a part of this world, however I can.' So that just led me to throwing myself into every aspect of narrative storytelling I could. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they have bigness in them. "

" I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist. "

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

" Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are. "

" I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I think this happens a lot. When you're 16, there are qualities you wish you didn't have, and then when you're 30, you're like, 'Thank God I have that; otherwise, I'd be living less vividly.' "

" When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it. "

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

" There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that. "

" Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator. "

" When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room. "

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

Greta Gerwig

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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. "

" There's something very satisfying about old cameras because they're ingenious. I mean when you take them apart and actually see, 'Oh, this is how we make photographs,' it's an ingenious thing, but it feels like it's in a way a layman can appreciate, whereas a digital camera, I don't even begin to know what goes into making a digital camera. "

" I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I loved 'Moonlight.' I thought it was really beautiful. Really great. "

" 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. "

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

" I think it's true of a lot of teenagers that you're convinced that life is happening somewhere else. "

" Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat. "

" There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck. "