I started a writing class, not in service of writing a script or writing anything specific. I've just really been enjoying that, and oddly the group, not by design, but it just happened to be all women, and there were three women who gave birth this fall while we were all in class, and there's just something really great about getting to know these women through their stories and what they're writing about.
Rosemarie DeWittI know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.
Rosemarie DeWittI like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.
Rosemarie DeWittAnd I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.
Rosemarie DeWittI think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.
Rosemarie DeWittI think Carl Jung said, you know, I'm gonna paraphrase it badly, but, so much of what we fall in love with in other people is a potential in us that's ready to be realized. We're projecting onto them this amazing thing, but really it's us, and we're very close to integrating it and claiming it. If we do claim it, then we can just love somebody for who they are with all their flaws, but if we don't take that projection back, then we keep wanting them to have that. Then you just realize we're all screwed, that's how it works.
Rosemarie DeWitt