Holly Hunter Quotes
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Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
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It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
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It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.
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I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private.
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My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
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The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.
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Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
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Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes.
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I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
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I don't think it's wrong to make fun of some of the stuff that we think and we do.
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I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.
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The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.
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I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself.
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The unknown makes people uncomfortable.
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I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.
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What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
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Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.
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The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects.
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I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.
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Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.
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I got a horror film, 'The Burning,' and suddenly I was making crazy money, like a thousand a week, so I moved into an apartment on Amsterdam with a guy who was also in 'The Burning,' Jason Alexander.
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I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it.
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Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.
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Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.