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" I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. "
Greta Gerwig
Happy
New York
New
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" I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong. "
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Something
Movies
Belong
" I sometimes have to turn off the fan part of my brain when I'm acting; otherwise, it would be terrible. "
Greta Gerwig
Acting
Brain
Fan
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Truth
Think
People
" Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process. "
Greta Gerwig
Overnight
Grow
Long
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Trying
You
Character
" 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
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Quality
Strong
Writing
" There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter. "
Greta Gerwig
Daughter
Plan
Romantic
" You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings. "
Greta Gerwig
Well
You
Feelings
" I loved dance. "
Greta Gerwig
Dance
Loved
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Me
Know
I Am
" The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them. "
Greta Gerwig
Transition
Acting
Movies
" I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot. "
Greta Gerwig
Strong
Dance
Feelings
" The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes. "
Greta Gerwig
More
You
Make
" I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the right guy' or 'Will he find her?' The question should be, 'Is she going to occupy her personhood?' Because I think we're very unused to seeing female characters, particularly young female characters, as people. "
Greta Gerwig
Movies
Seeing
Feel
" I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress. "
Greta Gerwig
Way
Film
Director
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Love
Water
World
" One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look at another director, and they feel the same thing you feel. "
Greta Gerwig
Small
Director
Feel
" I was a massive Whit Stillman fan. Groupie. I would have done anything for him. "
Greta Gerwig
Groupie
Would
Anything
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Home
Place
Bird
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
I Am
Man
Internet
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Work
Past
Love
" I've never worked on anything that I haven't in some way enjoyed. "
Greta Gerwig
Never
Anything
Enjoyed
" 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
Loved
Storytelling
Care
" I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. "
Greta Gerwig
Children
Long
Time
" 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. "
Greta Gerwig
Love
Place
Think
" 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
Think
Create
Meaning
" When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all. "
Greta Gerwig
College
Thought
Everyone
" I think it's true of a lot of teenagers that you're convinced that life is happening somewhere else. "
Greta Gerwig
True
Think
Life
" There's a style in modern dance right now called Release Technique. It's based on a feeling of falling and catching yourself, and I thought it was such a good metaphor for the way life feels. "
Greta Gerwig
Dance
Style
Good