Gerwig 5 Quotes & Sayings

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way. — Greta Gerwig

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say. — Greta Gerwig

I think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like a half-person because you've integrated yourself into an idea of a couple for so long, and then teasing that out and finding out who you are without them, it just takes a while. It feels like an amputation. — Greta Gerwig

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct. — Greta Gerwig

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers. — Greta Gerwig

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life. — Greta Gerwig

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing. — Greta Gerwig

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. — Greta Gerwig

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there. — Greta Gerwig

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

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much. — Greta Gerwig

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have. — Greta Gerwig

I don't do well when I don't work. — Greta Gerwig

I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships. — Greta Gerwig

I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing. — Greta Gerwig

You don't need love and sex in films — Greta Gerwig

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

I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. — Greta Gerwig

I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny. — Greta Gerwig

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it. — Greta Gerwig

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible. — Greta Gerwig

I'm not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don't need a romance to complete a story about a woman — Greta Gerwig

It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time in order to get an immersive experience. That's the best way to make art. It's almost like you have to treat it like you're going into a submarine, and Noah Baumbach totally agrees with that. There's not a real other life that happens outside of the movie while it's being shot, which I like. — Greta Gerwig

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium. — Greta Gerwig

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from. — Greta Gerwig

I like things that look like mistakes. — Greta Gerwig

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

I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly. — Greta Gerwig

There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and of course, you want to do well. You want to use good techniques so you enforce it, but also you don't do things you don't have to do. It's very economical, and I think that in acting the most economical way through a scene is always the best. It's active. There is the sense of the fight and you want to win. — Greta Gerwig

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit. — Greta Gerwig