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Greta Gerwig Quotes

American - Actress | August 4, 1983 -

I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.

Good School Door Theatre Walking

I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth.

Truth I Am New York People Think

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

Quality Better High Pretty Catholic

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption.

Work Funny People Me Story Think

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

Mother Daughter Relationship Simple

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.

Character Myself Space Feel You Go

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.

Life Moving On Grace Moving Rest

Having health insurance made me feel like a real person. Up until then, it felt like I was getting away with something, and if three things went wrong, it would all fall apart.

Health Me Feel Insurance Fall Wrong

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

Work Best People Someone You Look

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.

Process Slow You Movies Matter Hard

One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look at another director, and they feel the same thing you feel.

Small Feel You Look Director Same

I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing.

Work School Writing Think Acting Go

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