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VMagazine: What are you most passionate about?

Tavi Gevinson: Avoiding physical or emotional pain to the detriment of my growth as a human being.

V: What words do you live by?

TG: Keep it moving.

V: What’s the last thing that made you cry?

TG: I don’t know! I was in my car waiting to pick up takeout. I think crying when you have a moment to be still is a reasonable reaction to living in the world or like, having conspiracy theorists as elected officials.

 

V: What is freedom to you?

TG: “What you do with what’s been done to you.” Sorry to quote Sartre but it’s what I think!

V: If you could travel to the past for one day, where would you go?

TG: Ancient Greece.

V: What’s the best advice you’ve ever rejected?

TG: “Always take the meeting.”

V: What artistic work do you wish you created?

TG: I feel like getting to look at something and appreciate it without having to have done any work is a sweeter gig.

V: What’s one thing you would change about your industry?

TG: I would ensure a future for film beyond streamers! I would bring back midbudget movies! I would resuscitate theaters! I would do an overhaul on payment structures and ask executives in the Beverly Hills voting bloc to recognize their impaired judgment in the previous two presidential elections and resign! I would ask creators, very gently, “Does this need to be an eight-hour long docuseries, or could it be a 90-minute movie?” I could keep going! Vote for me!

V: If you could be a character in a movie, who would it be?

TG: Annie, from the John Huston one.

V: What is your favorite indulgence?

TG: To steal Fran Lebowitz’s view on guilty pleasures, I don’t think of anything as an indulgence so much as a fun thing I’m entitled to because life is short and I don’t hate myself.

V: Who do you envy?

TG: I tend to envy people who strike me as much more disciplined than I and who make things they seem to have a lot of control over. They also have to be talented and attractive. So right now, it’s Phoebe Bridgers.

V: What is the most profound discovery you’ve made about yourself this past year?

TG: I’m okay sharing a living space with mice.

 

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