It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
Cate BlanchettWhen you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
Cate BlanchettWe're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable.
Cate BlanchettI'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
Cate BlanchettIt's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.
Cate Blanchett