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Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive – yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

Julia Stiles

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
JULIA STILES

Ideas Sometimes Track
With film, so much is in the director’s hands. Once something is cut together – unless you’re in the editing room – you don’t really remember what the alternatives are.
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Cutting Editing Hands
I remember seeing Janet McTeer in A Doll’s House. My grandmother took me and we had seats in the very back row, but her performance was so powerful – it was very accessible. I felt like I was much closer than I was.
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Grandmother House Performance Powerful
The thing with the Bourne movies is that they’re so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.
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Bigs Organization Scope
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn’t have actresses then.
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Character Females Thinking Writing
I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance. Now, I’m like, “Well, that’s over and done with, and I can’t control the outcome, so move on.” I just remember that it’s entertainment I am making.
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Dwelling Moving Struggle
The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.
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Emotional Pain Type
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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Lifetime
I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.
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Acting Important People
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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Actors Home Thinking
I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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Analyzing Behavior Human
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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Cake Television Theater
I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.
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Country People Running Summer
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Anxiety Forever Grateful
I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.
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Easier Home Seriously Term
It’s not my job to critique the writing. I’m there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.
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Figure Jobs Way Writing

Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive – yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

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Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive – yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

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