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I’m not good at keeping secrets. If I’m entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I’m a good friend, but I don’t like having secrets, it makes me nervous.

Julia Stiles

I did a different production with a different director and Bill Pullman. Oleanna – the one you saw – we were doing right after Bourne Identity or right after it came out.
JULIA STILES

Bills Identity Saws
As an actor, you’re only one little piece of the puzzle; you’re fulfilling someone else’s vision. If you’re involved earlier on, you’re kind of creating your own.
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Creating Little Vision
I’m going to Columbia University but I’m trying to keep that low-profile because I don’t want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
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College People Trying
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.
JULIA STILES

Country People Running Summer
We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird
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Art Bird Cutting Funding Times
I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I’m doing and noticing what I’m doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don’t jump right in and give you a note before you’ve had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.
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Directors Giving Scene
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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Innocent Ophelia Roles
In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.
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Careers Error Errors Trial
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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Lifetime
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
I think it’s really special to be a part of something that people are still watching or thinking about or interested in, or remember fondly many years later. I don’t think it’s annoying at all.
JULIA STILES

People Thinking Years
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’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
In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?
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Hate Moments Thinking Worst
I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Bits Premature Probably
I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there’s always room for improvement.
JULIA STILES

Different Rooms Skills

I’m not good at keeping secrets. If I’m entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I’m a good friend, but I don’t like having secrets, it makes me nervous.

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I’m not good at keeping secrets. If I’m entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I’m a good friend, but I don’t like having secrets, it makes me nervous.

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