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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved dance.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in front of me, but movies seemed like they were delivered, wholly made, from Zeus's head or something.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sacramento is where I grew up, so I felt like it had not been given its proper due in cinema.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they have bigness in them.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.
- Different Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year of The Woman.' I think that we all just know in our hearts they're underrepresented. But that doesn't mean that there aren't amazing moments.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm, like, the only actor in New York who's never, ever been on any 'Law & Order.' And I've auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love 'Law & Order.' I'm really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, 'You seem like you're making fun of the material.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't call myself 'into the DJ scene.' I have friends who are DJs, like James Murphy. I was really into the DJ scene at his wedding. But generally, I'm not at the clubs. I've never been to a rave.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love movies, but sometimes I think it's better for actresses not to be total cinephiles. You have to be able to do the work at some point; you can't be totally starstruck. 'I can't believe it's Woody Allen!' You have to get past that.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes have to turn off the fan part of my brain when I'm acting; otherwise, it would be terrible.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was always the first love, but a lot of people want to be actors, and my goal was, 'Come hell or high water, I will be a part of this world, however I can.' So that just led me to throwing myself into every aspect of narrative storytelling I could.
- Be Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the French new wave is Truffaut and Rohmer. Godard I sometimes have trouble with because he's very much of a director's director. I feel Truffaut is such a humanist, and I always go in that direction.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woody Allen was the reason I wanted to move to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to make films. I felt that I understood his films, and I love them so much. When you're starting out, certainly, you have this sense of wanting to talk back to people who have influenced you, and I always wanted to talk back to Woody Allen.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I think I'm mainly interested in contemporary themes, so when I create my own stuff, it's inherently that. But as an actor, I would like to do lots of different things. I would love to play someone completely different from myself in a costume drama.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something very satisfying about old cameras because they're ingenious. I mean when you take them apart and actually see, 'Oh, this is how we make photographs,' it's an ingenious thing, but it feels like it's in a way a layman can appreciate, whereas a digital camera, I don't even begin to know what goes into making a digital camera.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film.
- Good Pair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like a good pair of diamond studs goes a long way. They make everything look dressy, and you just seem more put together.
- Harrison Ford
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young Harrison Ford, what a dreamboat.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm scared of the Internet. That's not real, but it is. I'm worried about what it's doing to us.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style. I was one of two white girls, and I was part of the younger company, which was called Touch of Style. And it was amazing. It gave me a different perception of dance and beauty because the other girls were mostly African-American and Latina.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.
- Credits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like movies are presents, and credits and fonts are bows and wrapping paper. I like everything to feel like it was given a lot of time. I hate it when I watch movies, and it seems like they just went and picked a font and, like, called it a day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020