Greta Gerwig Quotes

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

I'm not going to be the artist that talks about a million dollar whip and 'I just bought some red bottoms.' That's cool, but that's not all there is to it. I'd rather talk about something everyone can relate to and feel.

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

I think I'm relatable.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

I look for songs that the listener, when they hear it, they believe what I'm singing about, that I know what I'm singing about. That's my whole deal. I try to choose songs that a male or a female can perform and relate to.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it's going to be universal, and it's going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same, and everyone is unique.

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.

If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.

I want the fans to know that just because we have a microphone; we're no different from you.