Film Quotes by Maggie Gyllenhaal

13 Film quotes by Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s short collection of thoughts on movies reveals her focus on layered characters, emotional honesty, and the collaborative spirit of filmmaking.

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Yes, I want to do good work. But just because a movie is small, it doesn't make it better. In fact, there…

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After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have…

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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that…

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I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.

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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to…

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Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how…

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What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think…

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I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if…

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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting…

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Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be…

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I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look…

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I don't feel that way now. I don't want to make movies for the 10 people who feel exactly the same way…

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I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for…

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When I was in grade school in L.A., I really loved Cyndi Lauper. I did everything I could to look like her. I had…

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I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that…

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The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze…

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I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one…

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I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.

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I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there's something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding…

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It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.

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Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set…

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I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.

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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very…

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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

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I am not crazy about my knees.

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If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a…

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