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 More Quotes by Maggie Gyllenhaal More Quotes From Maggie Gyllenhaal I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. Maggie Gyllenhaal independent literature class I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well. Maggie Gyllenhaal play order thinking There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative. Maggie Gyllenhaal provocative america needs Someone who's 26, 27, has a very different relationship to sex than someone who's 30. Maggie Gyllenhaal different-relationships different sex 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 advertisements come-up smart 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 kids school 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 phones government thinking 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 government law thinking I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned. Maggie Gyllenhaal internet daughter looks The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids. Maggie Gyllenhaal real home kids Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age. Maggie Gyllenhaal history years interesting 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 roles doe thinking 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 littles people needs 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 nursing daughter thinking Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing. Maggie Gyllenhaal wells important sometimes Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex. Maggie Gyllenhaal sex people years 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 Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in. Maggie Gyllenhaal important believe thinking I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive. Maggie Gyllenhaal complicated trying thinking I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it. Maggie Gyllenhaal miserable would-be people
