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 More Quotes by Greta Gerwig More Quotes From 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 keep-learninglive-lifeletting-go I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it. Greta Gerwig adorablecutemen Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to. Greta Gerwig end-timesspend-timecharacter 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 romancestoriesneeds I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct. Greta Gerwig instinctplansdone 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 kindfeelspeople I like things that look like mistakes. Greta Gerwig mistakelooks I think when you're a teenager, you always feel as if life is happening somewhere else - it certainly isn't happening to you. And then you get to the place where you think your life is supposed to be, and you look around and realize it doesn't exist. Greta Gerwig teenagerrealizingthinking 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 nyccitiesnew-york You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much. Greta Gerwig sadnesscitiesnew-york I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched. Greta Gerwig i-had-a-dreamwork-outdream 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 bookpeopleart I think... I love Los Angeles. 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 los-angelesworldthinking 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 life-is-hardcitiesnew-york 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 actingwritingthinking I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again. I like a lot of structure and a lot of lines, but then within that I make room for things to happen that you couldn't have predicted. Greta Gerwig filmmistakethinking There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents practice being grown ups and practice for adult morality. I remember when I was 15 and people were starting to date and someone cheated on someone. They'd say, 'He cheated on her. You know what they say, once a cheater always a cheater.' Greta Gerwig cheatercheatingpeople As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on. Greta Gerwig good-lifemombook You don't need love and sex in films Greta Gerwig filmsexneeds 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 creatingcharacterthinking
