Greta Gerwig > Quotes

“It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're possessive, or it's precisely sexual... but because... that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.”
― Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

“Women. They have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition. And they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it. But I’m so lonely.”
― Greta Gerwig, Little Women: The Screenplay

“Just because my dreams are different than yours, it doesn't mean they're unimportant.”
― Greta Gerwig, Little Women: The Screenplay

“I don’t know. I think I’m sick.
And I don’t know if my ailment has a name
- it’s just me sitting and staring at the internet or the television for long periods of time interspersed by trying to not do that and then lying about what I’ve been doing. Then I’ll get so excited about something that the excitement overwhelms me and I can’t sleep or do anything - and then I just am in love with everything but can’t figure out how to make myself work in the world”
― Greta Gerwig, Mistress America

“Humans have only one ending, ideas live forever.”
― Greta Gerwig

“She doesn’t know how to help you and it frustrates her.”
― Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Screenplay Book

“It's that thing when you are with someone, and you love them and they know it and they love you, you know it. But it's a party, you're both talking to other people and you're laughing and shining ... You look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but-but not because you are possessive or it's precisely sexual .. but because .. that's your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's that's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess”
― Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

“We mothers stand still so that our daughters can look back and see how far they’ve come.”
― Greta Gerwig

“That anger that creates a kind of certainty which is very dangerous that gives way to a little bit of doubt which then uncovers of course there's pain and then once the pain takes over then this hope of maybe I'll get back in time and then realizing it's too late.”
― Greta Gerwig

“Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever.”
― Greta Gerwig

“Don't you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention?”
― Greta Gerwig

“I like making films!”
― Greta Gerwig