“When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentHardKidsSchoolSexSleepWorryDangerousSafeHigh SchoolAidsLiberationJoyfulHippieDifferent WorldsElementary SchoolYour FreedomFree LoveLecturing Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
“It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.” WritingYearsKindChildrenBookHardRunningRememberRoomsFictionMillionsNovelWrittenCoupleYears AgoEmptyWestI RealizedJournalismSatPensAwardsNon FictionScreenwritersChildren's Books Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
“It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.” PeopleArtSometimesDoneWould BeFormDealsGainsBasesJudgedCollaborators Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
“I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting.” IfsDoneEnoughRealizingHurtInterestingLikesMisunderstood Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
“It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have to learn lines. For me, I have to work on my accent, so I was getting accent coaching and acting coaching. I wanted to make good impressions.” WantedNextLinesActingImpressionCoachingAccentsAuditionsStressfulThe Next One Author:Luke Mitchell
“Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.” IfsPlayAbleGamesWaitingTelevisionSeriesScriptsPilots Author:Mena Suvari
“It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what that means in relationships. As a person in the world, it's on your mind. It's a part of your life, after a certain age until you're dead. So, to be able to examine it in a different way is really fulfilling.” WorldWayMindMeanPersonsDifferentAgeAbleCertainSexConversationIntellectualHonestlyIntimacyDifferent WaysFulfillingRefreshing Author:Lizzy Caplan
“I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.” PeopleEasyHappenedCrazyFansHugeHorrorLetting GoElementsGenreHorror GenreJust Let GoWild And CrazySupernatural Elements Author:Mena Suvari
“If you're raised in a household where questions are encouraged, you're the minority. It's sad. One of the things that has resonated the most for me is that, in the '50s, if your sex life was unfulfilling, it was your fault, as a woman. It was never the man's fault. Millions of women thought they were working with faulty equipment. If they couldn't have orgasms from having sex with their husbands, then they were broken. That's insane, and everybody believed it.” IfsMenSexMillionsBrokenHusbandFaultsRaisedInsaneMinoritiesHouseholdEquipmentHaving Sex Author:Lizzy Caplan
“There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.” PeopleSpiritBornAdventurousAdventurous Spirit Author:Lizzy Caplan