Latest Mia Wasikowska Quotes from Interviews

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• It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Fun, Kids, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Real, Energy, Calm

  Source: film.avclub.com

• There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I guess just posture, and the way you walk, and the way you physically are. All of that says a lot about who someone is.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Character, Different, Language

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• I think dancing is contributed hugely to how I am as an actor, just a level of comfort in my body and in movement. Things can become strangely physically technical when you're acting, and often something that just feels so unnatural is actually what you need to do in a certain scene.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Dancing, Acting

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• Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Teenager, Kind

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• I think that because most films where there's a teenager, it's aimed at a teenage audience. Restless is - I wouldn't classify it as a teen film, strictly, but it's definitely a film that appeals to young people, but also gives them credit for their complexity.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Teenage, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think it's possible to have the kind of career you really want if you want to. You just don't do the things you don't want to and you just have to be cool with waiting for something to come around that you really feel passionate for.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Waiting, Passionate

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It's always nice to work with someone you have a history with. It just makes it easier to click back into that dynamic and have a lot of fun.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Fun, Nice

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a constant sort of strain and you have to hold yourself in a certain way. It's very uncomfortable. But again you instantly understand the repression that women feel and how much they were captives. It's sort of sad really.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Mean, Relax, Moments

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Expression, Dancing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Art, Dad, Independent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Years, Dancer

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Song, Unique, Piano

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!

  Mia Wasikowska

  The End Of The Day, Parks, Sides

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Wall, Character, Eggs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Girl, Uncles, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• When I got onto set with him we were given a folder of storyboards. I thought that was pretty incredible because I hadn't worked with anybody who used storyboards before so he obviously had a very precise way as to how he visualized the film from the very beginning. It was every scene, but to his credit he was incredibly collaborative and gave us many opportunities to have our own input and to change things with him, so it was a really great way of working.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Opportunity, Credit, Input

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Different, Way

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• One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Thinking, Speak English

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Fun, Lying, Real

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Uncles, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• He [directo Park] gave me a sculpture, a jaguar. It is the animal, obviously, and it is in my bedroom at my parents' place at the moment. But I am just about to move into my own place and I shall put it somewhere there. I shall make sure it has good lighting. This will be my first place of my own and I am so excited.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Moving, Animal, Parent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Meaningful, Trying, Roles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Book, Home, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Independent, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk