Greta Gerwig Quotes

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

I'm here to make sense.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

At the end of the day, it's all about the story.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

There is a reason for everything.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

The human word is neither immortal nor invulnerable; but it is the power that orders our chaos, and the light by which we live.

I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

My main goal is to tell a story.

Story is what's most important.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.