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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

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Greta Gerwig
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 4
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Sacramento
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Greta Celeste Gerwig
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When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.
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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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I like things that look like mistakes.
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I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don't mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don't even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn't bother me.
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Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.
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When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.
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It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].
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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 think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like a half-person because you've integrated yourself into an idea of a couple for so long, and then teasing that out and finding out who you are without them, it just takes a while. It feels like an amputation.
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I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.
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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 had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
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In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.
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I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.
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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'm interested in the feeling of getting to zero after a play, like you're never going to do it again. That's a really scary feeling.
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I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.
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I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.
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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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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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