I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'
From Laura Dern
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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