American - Actress | March 20, 1958 -
Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.
Holly Hunter
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I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool.
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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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I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it.
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The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.
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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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When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.
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Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.
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Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.
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Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.
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Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role.
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