Greta Gerwig Recalls How ‘The Muppets Take Manhattan’ Kicked Off Her Love of Film

Greta Gerwig obtained the supervisor of the year honor at the Hand Springs Film Honors on Thursday evening, where she assessed her trip to helming the largest motion picture of 2023 with Barbie.

Approving her honor from Margot Robbie and America Ferrera, Gerwig mused how in 2020 she provided the very same honor to Quentin Tarantino in 2020 for In the past in Hollywood, “and I cannot believe and I am beyond honored that tonight it is being given to me.”

“It took me a long time to say out loud that I wanted to be a director. But when I finally did say it, when I finally did say I wanted to direct and I did it, it was like getting to fall in love with movies all over again and to declare that love in the boldest terms possible,” Gerwig informed the group at the honors gala, which existed as component of the Hand Springs International Film Event.

“My parents told me that the first film that they took me to was a rerelease of The Muppets Take Manhattan. When the credits rolled, they realized I wasn’t in my seat; I had run to the front of the theater and I literally tried to get into the screen, and I feel like I’ve been doing a version of that for my entire life,” she proceeded.“I’ve acted, I’ve written and produced, I’ve held booms and cameras and thrifted for costumes and done my hair and makeup, but nothing has given me a greater thrill or a greater satisfaction or a greater terror or a greater euphoria than directing. It is the way that I can live inside of the film for the maximum amount of time, to be with it through every moment.”

She included that each time she mosts likely to the flicks“and the lights go down, I get a chill and I say to myself, ‘I cannot believe that I get to add my own stories to what the story of cinema is.’ And I will spend the rest of my life forever running towards the screen trying to get in.”

Awesomes of the Blossom Moon, Emma Rock, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, Jeffrey Wright, Carey Mulligan, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell and Paul Giamatti are additionally being recognized at the occasion.