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I Remember Hearing Someone Say That Good Acting Is More About Taking Off A Mask Than Putting One On, And In Movie Acting, Certainly That's True. With The Camera So Close, You Can See Right Down Into Your Soul, Hopefully. So Being Able To Do That In A Way Is Terrifying, And In Another Way, Truly Liberating. And I Like That About It.

One Of The Things That I Love When I Go To A Film Or When I'm Reading Some Book Or Whatever, Is To Be Told A Secret I Thought Only I Knew And Then Someone Says, "oh My Gosh, You Know, Too." And Film Can Take Us Into Private Moments In A Way That The Theater, I Think, Kind Of Can't, And That's One Of The Reasons I Like Doing Films. And The Way A Book Can Is That These Little Secrets And The Private Things That Go On In Our Minds That Maybe We Haven't Shared With Anyone, And Then Someone Writes It Or Shows It To You In A Film, You Think, "oh, That's Me. Oh My God, That's Me, I Have That Secret."

We Still Want To Idealize Moms, And Sometimes We Want To Idealize Actresses Who Are Moms, Too. I Know That's Something I've Experienced, But We're All Just Doing The Best We Can And We're All Trying To Raise Our Kids And Talk To Them About Everything That Needs To Be Discussed.

Most Of The People That I've Worked With When Shooting Films That I Really Respect, There Is A Point Which You Do Become Obsessed In A Good Way. And Because It's A Collaborative Medium, You're Not By Yourself In A Room Tearing Your Hair Out, You're In A Room With A Bunch Of People. And We're All Tearing Our Hairs Out, Or Trying To Get Something Right, Or Caring Deeply About Something. But That's Fun.

All Of Modern Acting Comes From Stanislavski, Who Was The Russian Partner To Chekhov. When Chekhov Was Writing His Plays, Stanislavski Was Running His Theater. And Stanislavski Really Was The First Inventor Of Modern Acting And Then Everything That Came Out Of The Method And Stella Adler And The Great Teachers Really Came Out Of Him.