Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach Open Up About Their Relationship

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter‘s latest issue, out now.

Here’s what the directors and real-life couple had to say…

On the similarities between their latest movies and their lives:

Noah, on Marriage Story: “It’s not autobiographical. It’s personal. A David Lynch movie is the most personal filmmaking I could ever imagine. But nobody asks him if those things actually happened to him. It’s all him. It’s all his expression.”

Greta, on Little Women: “I’ve hidden things in there that no one will ever know how personal they are.”

Greta, on their professional rivalries: “It’s exciting to have mutual acknowledgment of the work that he and I have both put into [our movies]. There is a sense of wanting to show off for each other. At least on my part. I remember when I showed Noah cuts or drafts of Little Women. He’s my favorite filmmaker and my favorite writer. It means everything to me that he thinks it’s good.”

Noah, on their professional rivalries: “When we’re working on our own projects, we’re always talking about them and showing each other things. I always feel very much a part of what she’s done. [Little Women] is absolutely hers, but it’s not like I woke up one day and this movie’s in theaters. She’s been talking about it for a few years. It feels like, ‘How great that this is being recognized in the way that you hoped it would.’”

On dating a fellow director:

Noah: “You come home at 3 in the morning and you climb into bed and the other person’s half asleep — you feel…”

Greta: “Lonely.”

Noah: “Wrecked and lonely and you don’t even know if you got [the best footage]…The thing you want more than anything is for someone to just take care of you because shooting a movie is so much.”

Greta: “But because we’re both doing it, we haven’t necessarily always been able to be the person who was there. Sometimes it’s not completely possible.”

For more from Greta and Noah, head to THR.com.