I feel so part of the filmmaking community. It’s amazing how much people support each other. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
I love writing, and I think I’m kind of a workaholic. I’m happiest when I’m working. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For me, the French new wave is Truffaut and Rohmer. Godard I sometimes have trouble with because he’s very much of a director’s director. I feel Truffaut is such a humanist, and I always go in that direction. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
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. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
As a writer, I think I’m mainly interested in contemporary themes, so when I create my own stuff, it’s inherently that. But as an actor, I would like to do lots of different things. I would love to play someone completely different from myself in a costume drama. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
There’s something very satisfying about old cameras because they’re ingenious. I mean when you take them apart and actually see, ‘Oh, this is how we make photographs,’ it’s an ingenious thing, but it feels like it’s in a way a layman can appreciate, whereas a digital camera, I don’t even begin to know what goes into making a digital camera. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it makes you a strong director. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I’m trying to do in film. Greta Gerwig Read Quote
