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I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it.

~Holly Hunter

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I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it.

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Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.

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The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

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When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.

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Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

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Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

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Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

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Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role.

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I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: February 2nd, 1958

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