There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
I'm not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that's about it.
My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.
Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.
My body's my best friend.
Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out.
Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.
If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'
I'm obsessed with my parents.
You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like - it's huge!
Kevin Kline is an honorary Brit.
I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.
I have an amino acid missing that you can only get from certain kinds of eggs. So, I've been eating a few eggs.
As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.
When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.
After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
I did karate for years and years and years.
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
I will never reach the success that my dad has felt.
I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed.
You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.
I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.
Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.
'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again.
I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.
I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
My parents have been together since they were 16 years old.
When I was grounded, I wouldn't be allowed to go on set. That's how much I loved it.
When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.
I'm very sturdy and very proud of it.
It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
I loved being pregnant.
Whenever I hear the word 'breakout,' I associate it with acne.
I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.
Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.
You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.
I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.
Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.
