AP PHOTO/GERO BRELOER
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one of those people who was like,
“Fuck all y’all! I’m going to do it
anyway.” But I’m totally not that
person. I’m so affected by what
people think. I think it’s one of
the tragedies of people who make
things: They really do care more
than anybody else what people
think. You have to have a weird
combination of caring and not
caring to actually get something
done. I think what’s really amazing about right now, though, [is
the opportunity]. Whenever people say, “Oh do you wish you had
been born in a different time?”
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It’s like, “Not as a woman.” As a
woman, pretty much now is the
best time. It’s only gotten better
in the last 100 years, and I feel
the more women who are writing and directing and running
companies and doing everything,
the less it’s going to be an object
of scorn and fear and judgment.
Because it will be less spectacular. I think as we continue it will
just keep getting easier for women to do it. Hopefully, my sistas
and I absorb the scorn together!
[Laughs] It’s hard, but
we’re all in this together.
Gerwig at the
photo call for
Frances Ha
at the Berlin
International
Film Festival
in Feburary.