I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh. Maggie Gyllenhaal More Quotes by Maggie Gyllenhaal More Quotes From Maggie Gyllenhaal What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary. Maggie Gyllenhaal rolestelevisionthinking I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life. Maggie Gyllenhaal roleschallengespeople 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 down-andmotherwriting 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 choicesbelievepeople A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating. Maggie Gyllenhaal actressesrealcomplicated I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on. Maggie Gyllenhaal sexypowerfulthinking Having an education is invaluable. Maggie Gyllenhaal invaluable 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 strangealiensthinking It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally. Maggie Gyllenhaal hard-lifemennight Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make. Maggie Gyllenhaal implicationshonestlypolitical I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward. Maggie Gyllenhaal rolesworldmoving To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important. Maggie Gyllenhaal politicalintellectualpeople A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it. Maggie Gyllenhaal ablefeelingsmean I have a couple of girlfriends who are like healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of. Maggie Gyllenhaal girlfriendcoupletaken There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me. Maggie Gyllenhaal knowingpregnancyinteresting 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 wantplaythinking I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made. Maggie Gyllenhaal importantworldthinking Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it. Maggie Gyllenhaal actressesdirectorsyears You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances. Maggie Gyllenhaal importantartistbelieve There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something much more interesting than everybody else if you are this disinterested. The other is to be extremely interested. You are not trying to please anyone, but you are really invested are really focused. Maggie Gyllenhaal tryingtwointeresting
