Greta Gerwig Quotes

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

But, I love making independent films. I love it! You create a family, and you sweat, you bleed, you cry, you shout, you laugh and you hug. It's such an extraordinary experience, making independent films.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.