Latest Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes from Interviews

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• I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Kind, Easy, All Kinds

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Sometimes I'll read a script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Strange, Aliens

  Source: film.avclub.com

• It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Men, Night, Hard Life

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Daughter, Looks, Internet

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

• One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Government, Law

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

• We have our phones right by our beds, right next to us in our most exposed, vulnerable moments. And yet the government could have been collecting information from our phones at any moment. I think that basically as humans, we feel that's a violation.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Phones, Government

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

• People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Writing, School, Kids

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

• I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it - how little fighting we did.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Fighting, Thinking, Nsa

  "h Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

• I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Smart, Come Up, Advertisements

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

• Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Independent, Order, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't feel that way now. I don't want to make movies for the 10 people who feel exactly the same way about the world that I do. I want to make movies that many, many people see, and I want to say something that I believe is important in a way that people who don't agree with me can hear. And that involves making different kinds of choices, but it's not like a compromise that I'm making. It's that something else interests me, something else is appealing to me.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Believe, People, Choices

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Important, Sometimes, Wells

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's, I didn't even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like "Oh, huh, wow, my body's so different."

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Daughter, Nursing, Thinking

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Doe, Roles

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  People, Needs, Littles

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• I don't think there are that many parts I could say unequivocally "I would not play that," but there's lots of parts I read and I think, "I don't really want to do that. I don't really think that's how women act."

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Play, Want

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Believe, Views, Play

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Order, Space, Actors

  "The Dark Knight - Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sir Michael Caine and Aaron Eckhart interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Mother, Writing, Down And

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

• Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Political, Honestly, Implications

  "Talking with Maggie Gyllenhaal about Won’t Back Down". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.