Quotes from Marielle Heller

One of the boring tricks about capturing Broadway onscreen, actually, is just about all the different unions.

Someone once shared a statistic with me about how long it takes women to make their second films. On average, it's three years for men and eight years for women.

I think that instead of laying out ahead of time where my career is going to go, I try to make decisions that feel like they're the best steps for me in that moment.

Part of what I loved about exploring Lee Israel was she was a woman who was often overlooked and judged. And it was fun to find all the ways that I could sympathise and feel as though I was like her.

Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He's without conflict, he's too far along on his journey toward enlightenment to be a good protagonist. Our protagonists have to be struggling with demons in a certain way.

Every actor is different, but it's a very fine line when it comes to how much information they have versus how much they need to let their imagination fill in the blanks.

As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.

I was one of those probably annoying little kids who was always putting on plays with my family.

But the idea behind French hours is that instead of doing a 12 and a half or 13-hour day with a lunch break in the middle, you do a 10-hour straight day. Everyone kind of eats food throughout the day anyway on the set.