ursulaklegay:

actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

gretacelestegerwig:

The name Lady Bird is a truly mysterious thing for me. I was writing the script, and I couldn’t figure out the character for some reason. I put it aside, and then something… I wrote at the top of the page, “Why won’t you call me Lady Bird? You promised you would.” I have no idea where that came from at all. I genuinely don’t know, and then later I realised there’s a nursery rhyme – “ladybird, ladybird, fly away home.” I think that had somehow lodged itself in my head, and that’s what came out. That’s, to me, part of the mystery of the creative process. Sometimes your unconscious knows more than you do. I remember writing it down, and thinking, “Who would do that? Who is this person who makes everyone call her Lady Bird, if that’s not her name?” I went through the normal feelings of self-doubt – I was like, is this the dumbest thing anyone’s ever written? But you kind of trust that if you’re excited about it, maybe it’s right.

Greta Gerwig

peaceofthewild1:

Timothée y Saoirse

paradoxdepriety:

“never forget that softness is strength, unflinching / against the knife and it is also the knife.”

— Jess Rizkallah, The Magic My Body Becomes: Poems