Latest Julia Stiles Quotes from Interviews

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• I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there's always room for improvement.

  Julia Stiles

  Skills, Different, Rooms

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• 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

  Thinking, Years, People

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

  Julia Stiles

  Errors, Careers, Trial And Error

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

  Julia Stiles

  Directors, Controlled

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• Actors can write and produce too. Then when I was working on Jason Bourne­ - having had that experience - instead of going back to my trailer and being separate from everyone else, I would sit behind the monitor and watch Paul Greengrass work and be much more included in the process. That was new for me and really enriching.

  Julia Stiles

  Writing, Jason, Watches

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Julia Stiles

  Giving, Directors, Scene

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• 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

  Summer, Running, New York

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

  Julia Stiles

  Grandmother, Childhood, Lucky

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Julia Stiles

  Powerful, Grandmother, House

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.

  Julia Stiles

  Exercise, Opportunity, Night

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Julia Stiles

  Cutting, Editing, Hands

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• 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

  Identity, Bills, Saws

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My perspective on those issues had changed a lot. Without going into nerdy details about that play, there was something that still stuck with me. I still had the same joy in that dialogue and David Mamet's rhythm in terms of his writing. I felt like there was still something to explore.

  Julia Stiles

  Writing, Age Difference, Play

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

  Julia Stiles

  Opportunity, Thinking, Return

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Julia Stiles

  Organization, Scope, Bigs

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

  Julia Stiles

  Humanity, Scripts, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Julia Stiles

  Powerful, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.

  Julia Stiles

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

• Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

  Julia Stiles

  School, Successful, College

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

  Julia Stiles

  Pain, People, Causes

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Julia Stiles

  Pain, Emotional, Type

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

  Julia Stiles

  Cake, Tvs, Theater

  "10 Hollywood Actors Who Would Rather Be Onstage" by April Sperry, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

• I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

  Julia Stiles

  Grateful, Anxiety, Forever

  "10 Hollywood Actors Who Would Rather Be Onstage" by April Sperry, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

• Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

  Julia Stiles

  Actors, Theater, Gym

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Julia Stiles

  People, Important, Acting

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.