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I feel like, when I play characters, I create a space in myself that feels like the character and that doesn't go away. Somehow, you carry that with you. You let it go, but a little piece of it remains.
- Greta Gerwig
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#Create
#Feel
#Myself
#Space
'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.'
- Greta Gerwig
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#History
#Me
#Mind
#Truth
I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.
- Greta Gerwig
#Mother
#Relationship
#Simple
#Who
#Woman
Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.
- Greta Gerwig
#Courage
#Grow
#Long
#Overnight
#Process
I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.
- Greta Gerwig
#Belong
#Movies
#Something
#Them
#Where
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
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#Film
#Memory
#Writing
#Yourself
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
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#Her
#Love
#Plan
#Romantic
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.
- Greta Gerwig
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#Matter
#Movies
#Process
#Product
#Slow
#Who
I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.
- Greta Gerwig
#Always
#Language
#Mean
#People
#Say
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.
- Greta Gerwig
#Being
#Continue
#Dramatic
#Good
#Level
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.
- Greta Gerwig
#Doing
#End
#Important
#Job
#Story
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.
- Greta Gerwig
#Acting
#Down
#Listening
#People
#Say
I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.
- Greta Gerwig
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#Just
#Madness
#Touch
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
#Bird
#Desire
#Home
#Lady
#Project
#Way
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.
- Greta Gerwig
#Boundaries
#Done
#Keep
#Nobody
#Will
The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.
- Greta Gerwig
#Make
#More
#Something
#Universal
#You
I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema.
- Greta Gerwig
#Cinema
#Family
#How
#Relationship
#Women
You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings.
- Greta Gerwig
#Feel
#Feelings
#Life
#Only
#Well
I loved 'Moonlight.' I thought it was really beautiful. Really great.
- Greta Gerwig
#Beautiful
#Great
#Loved
#Moonlight
Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.
- Greta Gerwig
#Always
#Everybody
#Middle
#Opera
#Own
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.'
- Greta Gerwig
#Fun
#Law
#Love
#Me
#Sad
I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that.
- Greta Gerwig
#Feel
#Find
#Romantic
#Way
#Women
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.
- Greta Gerwig
#Charming
#Grace
#Life
#Moving On
#New
#Rest
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
#People
#Zeus
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
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#Find
#Movies
#People
#Will
#Young
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