I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there’s always room for improvement.
JULIA STILESThe 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.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
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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.
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It was nice that there [ in the Bourne Ultimatum ] was a reference to the relationship . It’s very subtle – it’s actually without dialogue. I do think it’s powerful even without words.
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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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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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Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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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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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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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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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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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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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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Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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