You kind of wake up in the morning, and you don't see anybody but these actors until you go home at night and pass out and do it again. So it's structured a lot like the process when you're making a film. You just kind of get in that tunnel vision. I like that. I like when the rest of the world kind of quiets.

Katherine Waterston

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Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

Katherine Waterston

seeing actors reality

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

Katherine Waterston

shocking surprise-me surprise

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

Katherine Waterston

character mean people

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.

Katherine Waterston

risk stress doors

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

Katherine Waterston

villain girl play

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

Katherine Waterston

childhood acting too-late

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Katherine Waterston

adults looks ideas

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

Katherine Waterston

bizarre given damn

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

Katherine Waterston

horror character thinking

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

Katherine Waterston

standards approach thinking

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

Katherine Waterston

design important character

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

Katherine Waterston

vices real play

What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.

Katherine Waterston

phoenix bullshit ego

Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'

Katherine Waterston

wear you lucky remember

My first memory of the Harry Potter series was my little brother just falling into those books and not resurfacing until he was done. That J.K. Rowling got an entire generation reading is extraordinary - I'm amazed, thrilled, and proud to now be portraying one of that phenomenal writer's characters.

Katherine Waterston

memory proud reading brother

Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.

Katherine Waterston

never great psycho life

Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.

Katherine Waterston

down understand look strong

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.

Katherine Waterston

costume your you relationship

I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.

Katherine Waterston

feel myself shoes family

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

Katherine Waterston

about doing acting photography