The Complete Evolution Of Barbie Director Greta Gerwig

Greta Gerwig isn't particularly fond of Los Angeles. The home of cinema, where its denizens find residence and recreation, is apparently too much of a depressor for the "Barbie" director. For one, "I like walking. And you don't walk in L.A.," she told Crash magazine. "I like public transportation and public spaces and being around people." Having spent her early years in Sacramento, Gerwig is a Californian by birth — but at heart, she is a New Yorker like her mother. 

In a piece for The New York Times, Gerwig recalled visiting the Big Apple as a child and instantly feeling at home amidst the bustle. "I loved the crowdedness of New York City, how when it rained it seemed like the buildings were raining, not the sky," she wrote. 

Gerwig would eventually kickstart her adult life in the city that she felt was her mother personified when she moved to NYC to attend Barnard College. She admitted to having an epiphany of sorts: "Ah, yes, now life can really begin." Talking to Mahershala Ali on Variety's "Actors on Actors," Gerwig explained that she had attached a "mythical" quality to the city of dreams: "I've never fallen out of love with it. I still feel grateful every day." Though Gerwig is now neck-deep in industry business over in L.A. — shifting between her actor, director, and writer roles — she takes peaceful residence in New York.