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20th Century Women in particular features three distinct female characters at different points in their lives, which Gerwig says is rare.
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«I can think of a handful of films this year that have that, but there's not many,» Gerwig says, pointing to a lack of female filmmakers, who are also not honored as much as their male counterparts.
Gerwig says, «We decided to have this very warm, sunlight lighting for that shot and the shot directly after it is in the hotel room and it was these beautiful yellow curtains that were transparent.
Greta Gerwig says Mike Mills is at his core a listener and he started 20th Century Women from a place of being a listener.
«I can't speak about her without becoming emotional,» Gerwig says when asked about her leading lady.
To prepare for working on a film set in the»70s, aside from learning how to use cameras from that era, Gerwig says it was «more about trying to place more what it would feel like to encounter it for the first time.»
Of that experience, Gerwig says can be seen in the movie, and describes it as «extraordinary.»
I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again,» Gerwig said.
Of all the crafty schemes «Brooke» had going, Gerwig said her favorite was the spin class instructor.
«When I first read Joan Didion,» Gerwig said, «I was getting to see the place I was from through the eyes of this brilliant writer.»
Gerwig said she hopes to eventually make a «quartet» of movies around her hometown.
«They have tall poppy syndrome in Ireland, just like they do in Sacramento,» Gerwig said.
Gerwig said her Lady Bird star, Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, related strongly to the lead character, a Sacramento teen based on Gerwig whose ambitions seem too big for her town, and rallied for the role.
«I'm a theater nerd, and the theater was my first love,» Gerwig said.
In a recent talkback for the film in New York, Gerwig said, «I was really into rules and parameters, and I never made anybody call me by a different name.
«[«Mistress America»] is more about idolizing someone and attempting to misguidedly mentor someone,» Gerwig said.
«Part of the pleasure of having a screwball sensibility in the house was that you get to have all these fully formed crazy characters that just — you're suddenly existing with all of them at once,» Gerwig said.
«We wanted to do that really early, it was part of what was fun about the movie,» Gerwig said.
«The way that we shoot them and the way that we work on them, Noah and I have as much time to prepare and write the script as we want,» Gerwig said.
«We very deliberately set out to make this movie where the central question and the central relationship was another relationship between two women,» Gerwig said.
In a recent email, Gerwig said that she texts regularly with her high school's president, Theresa Rodgers, who alerts Gerwig when students offer her name in prayer.
Gerwig said she is not sure whether her future movies set in Sacramento will revisit «Lady Bird's» characters or tell different stories.
«When you know something intimately, and you love it, you feel like you can show something about it that an outsider would not be able to,» Gerwig said by telephone.
Gerwig said she plans to follow «Lady Bird» — up for four Golden Globes Sunday, Jan. 7 — with three more movies set in Sacramento.
In terms of specifics, the high school that Lady Bird attends is a Sacred Heart Catholic School, the era is the immediate years following 9/11, which makes the prospect of escaping to a college in New York more realistic than her grades deserve, and while she technically lives in California, as Gerwig said of her hometown at The New York Film Festival's press conference, «Sacramento is the Midwest of California».
In a fabulous interview with Rolling Stone, Gerwig said «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?»
«This might be the first time a filmmaker has started crying for the screening,» Gerwig said.
But Gerwig said she didn't necessarily intend to play Frances.
«You have these words on the page, but it's such a leap of faith that you're gonna find the person who suddenly makes it live in front of you,» Gerwig said during a sit - down interview for IndieWire's Awards Spotlight series.
«I'm really interested in friendships among women, the way they are manifested, the different dimensions these relationships take on, whether we're talking about best friends or mentors or mothers or daughters or sisters,» Gerwig said.
«Friendships don't have the parameter of a romantic relationship, but they are so important to me in my life,» Gerwig said.
«The numbers are still really bad, still terrible for women in terms of directing,» Gerwig said.
As first - timer Gerwig said, barely containing her joy, «I've just been yelling on the phone for the last three hours — that's all I've been doing, excitedly yelling and not making any sense.
«I don't know how I end up down here,» Gerwig said, suddenly realizing she was crouched over the microphone for no reason.
Gerwig said in a statement: «This is an unbelievable honor and I am beside myself with joy and gratitude.
I was a rule follower, and I didn't dye my hair bright red,» Gerwig said.
While Lady Bird rebels, at one point dramatically flinging herself out of a moving car, «I was much more of a rule follower and a people pleaser,» Gerwig said.
Gerwig said she plans to return to directing after Lady Bird's theatrical release is complete, and she has been working on a script.
«So to be an Academy member was mind - blowing,» Gerwig said.
,» Gerwig said, very apologetically, «I think they're okay, but I feel so badly, because I didn't know, and certainly couldn't have known that this is what would end up happening.
«In the Virginia Woolf speech she gave that was turned into the book A Room of One's Own, she says, «Men don't know what women do when they're not there,»» Gerwig said.
«This is how our lives are,» Gerwig said.
«I don't think it ever stops,» Gerwig said.
«Writing is hard,» Gerwig said — repeatedly.
«I actually didn't hear her say that until the next day because I was backstage to present,» Gerwig said during an appearance on The View on Tuesday.
Gerwig said the prime example was Kathryn Newton.
Not exact matches
In 2017, Gerwig told NPR's Terry Gross that she was nervous to discuss working with Allen, but admired what Page had said.
«I take a long time to write scripts, because I don't do any improvisation on set,» said Greta Gerwig in an interview with RELEVANT.
Gerwig expressed regret over working with Allen on the 2012 film To Rome With Love, and said she would have not appeared in the movie if she knew then «what [she knows] now.»
Gerwig went on to say she would never work with Allen again, and said she was heartbroken to «realize [she] increased another woman's pain.»