At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura LinneyI could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
Laura LinneyThere's a real passing down in the theater, almost ad nauseam. You have to listen to older people talk about their experience, but it makes you very aware of what has come before you or what is coming after you - that you're a part of a link in a chain. It's not all about you.
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 Linney