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Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.
Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.
What it's done for me is highlight the fact that we need to lean into the cartoon universe of social media.
Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.
I have an amino acid missing that you can only get from certain kinds of eggs. So, I've been eating a few eggs.
I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.
Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.
I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.
I felt very comfortable on a set - incredibly comfortable on a set, which is a real gift because that can be hugely intimidating.
It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.
I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".
My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do, and how much pain people are in every day. So that's my mental change.
I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed.
I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.
I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.
My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
Sometimes I think to myself, "I wonder if Meryl Streep is ever like, 'Oh gosh, everyone thinks I'm so perfect! I wish that someone would give me a note.'"
My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.
The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.
Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.
The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.
My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.
If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.
After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.
I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
I actually gained 30 pounds [for the episode], and I haven't lost all of it yet so I haven't been like "I gained 30 pounds!" Because I don't know if people can tell the difference.
Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.
That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.