Greta Gerwig Quotes

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, 'I can't believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.'

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on me, have always been with directors who have the time to somehow get to know me. Any good director's going to be curious about who it is that's coming aboard.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons.

I like working with Kenneth Branagh.

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

In 'Stree', I had a great time working with the whole team and Dinu, being the producer and one of the most important people. And now we are doing another film together, and I'm sure there will be a couple of more films in the future.

I've always been a very collaborative person, and I think 'Cop Car' and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that.

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.

I still recall how nervous I was when I went for the recording of 'Guzarish'… When I reached the studio, all of them were there - Rahman, Aamir Khan, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and director A.R. Murugadoss.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.