Maya Forbes

(1968) Film Director

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Maya Forbes is a film director.

Quick Facts About Maya Forbes

Born: July 23, 1968
Profession: Film Director

About Maya Forbes

American screenwriter and director... | Maya Forbes is an American screenwriter and television producer. She made her debut as a film director with Infinitely Polar Bear (2014). Her other writing credits include the screenplay of The Rocker (2008) and many episodes of The Larry Sanders Show. She was a co-executive producer of The Larry Sa

Quotes by Maya Forbes

Tons of people want to see movies about women but they don't want to make them. I don't know why. I think…

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Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on…

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Adults

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The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human.…

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Humans

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I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your…

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Being positive

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Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said,…

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Depressive

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It's really kind of overwhelming and staggering to me how many people I know that have mental illness and there's not one…

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Get well

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It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have…

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Adversity

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When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's,…

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I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things…

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It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best…

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Addiction

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