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" 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

Movies

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

Greta Gerwig

Where

Felt

" I'm interested in long careers where you take detours. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down. "

" I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean. "

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

" Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it. "

" The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns. "

" I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don't have is particularly absurd because it's not theirs. It's their parents'. So to feel quite good about yourself because you've got the fancy house and car doesn't make any sense - you didn't earn any of that. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't call myself 'into the DJ scene.' I have friends who are DJs, like James Murphy. I was really into the DJ scene at his wedding. But generally, I'm not at the clubs. I've never been to a rave. "

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

" Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway. "

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

Greta Gerwig

People

Hard

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right. "

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

" 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. "