A brief rambling by Greta Gerwig from Hannah Takes the Stairs:
"What I'm saying is I think most plays try to speak to something about human nature that the playwright finds is true. And I think that it's hip right now to look at the world and have it be grim in a certain way. That like, everyone is fucking each other over.
I just think that the most massive tragedy is not that people are trying to fuck each other over purposely. But it's just that seems like that's what a lot of plays are about. But I think the most massive tragedy is that nobody really actually listens to each other. Everybody's just going like this (hand gesture signifying missing each other). Everybody's in love with the wrong person and nobody actually hears what anybody else is saying. Ever. Ever.
I have to take off my goggles because I wanna say something important...
That's like why Shakespear's so tragic. It is tragic on the scale of like, people are doing terrible things but it's also tragic because nobody hears what the other person is saying.
I get really frustrated because I love things so much and I feel like what I do is so trite. and small."
