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Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."

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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"

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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes."

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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene."

Sex

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

Idea

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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."

Ability

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you."

Work

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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."

Movies

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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."

Movies

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly."

Acting

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."

Work

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over."

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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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