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

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" 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. "

" I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong. "

" 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 love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who are these people?' "

" As an actor, I just go off the director. I never ask how big the part is. I don't look at it from the perspective of, 'Is this going to be good for my career?' I just look for directors, and I think part of that is I knew I always wanted to be a director. "

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

" I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive. "

" Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera. "

" The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film. "

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

" I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working. "

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

" I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why. "

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

" In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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 like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.' "

" 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. "

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

" I love movies, but sometimes I think it's better for actresses not to be total cinephiles. You have to be able to do the work at some point; you can't be totally starstruck. 'I can't believe it's Woody Allen!' You have to get past that. "

" 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. "

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