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" Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit. "
Greta Gerwig
Great
Feel
Good
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" Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat. "
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" 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. "
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Moving On
Moving
Life
" I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home - like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it. "
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Place
Bird
" One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end. "
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Time
Beginning
People
" 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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Trying
You
Character
" 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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Always
Doing
Life
" I loved dance. "
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Dance
Loved
" I'm interested in long careers where you take detours. "
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Where
Interested
Long
" I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job. "
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Job
Object
Middle-Class
" 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 I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write. "
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Job
Doing
End
" I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right. "
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Ballet
Age
Serious
" 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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Scared
Real
Internet
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
God
Me
Movies
" I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it. "
Greta Gerwig
Capable
Without
Moving
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Style
Amazing
Beauty
" Nobody knows what you have in you until you've done it, so I just keep pushing those boundaries, and I figure it will all come out in the wash. "
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Boundaries
Nobody
Out
" You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings. "
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Well
You
Feelings
" The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns. "
Greta Gerwig
High
Quality
Catholic
" Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process. "
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Overnight
Grow
Long
" 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. "
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World
Good
Good Life
" I loved 'Moonlight.' I thought it was really beautiful. Really great. "
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Thought
Beautiful
Great
" 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. "
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Think
Life
Mistakes
" 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. "
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Movies
Difficult
You
" We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside. "
Greta Gerwig
Depression
California
Grandfather
" 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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Happy
New York
New
" For me, the French new wave is Truffaut and Rohmer. Godard I sometimes have trouble with because he's very much of a director's director. I feel Truffaut is such a humanist, and I always go in that direction. "
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New
Trouble
Wave
" I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness. "
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Just
Touch
Madness
" 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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Love
Water
World
" I think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel appreciative of the gifts you have until you're gone. "
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Appreciate
You
Think
" I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is. "
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Love
Place
Think