Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them. What does it even mean? In so many interviews over the years, that’s how I’m described. It doesn’t sit comfortably with me. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn’t get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can’t get pregnant, that was really interesting to me. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I’m coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren’t working I would just sit on those folding chairs. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I don’t think I’m a brilliant writer, but I’m a good writer, and it’s just so empowering to get involved. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
So many people are willing to sleepwalk through things and fall into the not human, not interesting choice. To make the really interesting choice, you have to fight. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I’m not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I’m interested in showing what it actually looks like. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I think it’s worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for so long. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
For a long time, I bought into the idea that if you are a woman who is a storyteller and a lover of movies, then the best way to express that is as an actress. Obviously, there are women my age who are directors who didn’t buy into that idea, but I did – and now I’ve broken that down inside myself. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
