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

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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.

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I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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I like things that look like mistakes. by Greta Gerwig

I like things that look like mistakes.

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.

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I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New Yo... by Greta Gerwig

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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

You don't need love and sex in films

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.

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