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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Greta Gerwig

Writing

Yourself

Film

" I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Know

I Am

" From Noah Baumbach, I learned to have a strict no cell phone policy on set. There is nothing that bums you out more than looking over and seeing somebody on their smartphone, and that goes for actors and everyone else. "

" Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema. "

" Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Having health insurance made me feel like a real person. Up until then, it felt like I was getting away with something, and if three things went wrong, it would all fall apart. "

" I'm, like, the only actor in New York who's never, ever been on any 'Law & Order.' And I've auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love 'Law & Order.' I'm really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, 'You seem like you're making fun of the material.' "

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

Greta Gerwig

People

Hard

" 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. "

" I love musicals. I grew up on musicals. "

" I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Greta Gerwig

Likes

Feel

" There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what their economic prospects are, and not keeping themselves on par with the group - you realise suddenly that they're not your family. And I think that's very painful. "