I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.
Laura LinneyI never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.
Laura LinneyThere's something grueling but very appealing about rough, to-the-bone material in a low budget context. There's less between you and the material. There are less people. There is less time. There's often less technology. You have to concentrate very intensely, and you jump in a little deeper because there's nothing in your way... but there are challenges.
Laura LinneyFor me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
Laura Linney