Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on what I remembered, the real experience of seeing somebody like that. And as an adult, I’ve had family… — 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
