When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't have to hide the fact that I'm manic-depressive. You can tell people that's who I am.… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know,… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them.… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on what I… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
Tons of people want to see movies about women but they don't want to make them. I don't know why. I think that's insane… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
It's really kind of overwhelming and staggering to me how many people I know that have mental illness and there's not one thing that… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
