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Greta Gerwig
1983 • American • Actress
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Showing 64 quotesWriting on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway.— Greta Gerwig
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
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.— Greta Gerwig
I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don't have is particularly absurd because it's not theirs. It's their parents'. So to feel quite good about yourself because you've got the fancy house and car doesn't make any sense - you didn't earn any of that.— Greta Gerwig