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Maggie Gyllenhaal

"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made."

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"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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Donna Grant

"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."

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Donna Grant

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

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Donna Grant

"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."

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Donna Grant

"I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies."

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Donna Grant

"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."

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Donna Grant

"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"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."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"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."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really."

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