Greta Gerwig
FiNe II-I
Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Greta Celeste Gerwig
Birthplace Sacramento, California, U.S.
Birth Date August 4, 1983
Ethnicity Northwestern European
Overview German, Irish, English, Cornish
Nationality American
Career Director, actress, screenwriter
Color Season Soft Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Wrote and directed Lady Bird, Little Women, and Barbie
Delta nerd
FiNe II-I Seelie
FiNe II-I Seelie
Gerwig: "You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings."
Gerwig: "I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive."
Gerwig: "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."
Gerwig: "I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I think this happens a lot. When you're 16, there are qualities you wish you didn't have, and then when you're 30, you're like, 'Thank God I have that; otherwise, I'd be living less vividly.'"
Gerwig: "I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct."
Gerwig: "When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that."
Gerwig: "I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean."
Gerwig: "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."
Gerwig: "I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love."
Gerwig: "I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face."
Gerwig: "The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes."
Gerwig: "I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema."
Gerwig: "I feel like I'm an actor that likes to have lots of points of connection."
Gerwig: "I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the right guy' or 'Will he find her?' The question should be, 'Is she going to occupy her personhood?' Because I think we're very unused to seeing female characters, particularly young female characters, as people."
Gerwig: "There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life."
Gerwig: "When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room."
Gerwig: "I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress."