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Pablo Larraín: Building the character of Diana, we didn’t just want to create a replicated image of her but use cinema and its tools to create an internal world that striked the right balance between the mystery and fragility of her character
Pablo Larraín, Spencer, Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana: You need something very important in film, which is mystery. Kristen can be many things, and she can be very mysterious and very fragile and ultimately very strong as well
Amanda Knox: As I walked back into the free world, I knew that my doppelgänger was there alongside me. Even most of the strangers who offered kindness and support didn’t truly see me. They loved her
Pablo Larraín, Jackie: She was an incredibly mysterious person, and I think Natalie Portman has that in her eyes. That’s why I wanted so many close-ups
Pablo Larraín: If there’s no perversion, there’s no beauty | Natalie Portman: A great director always has a little bit of perversion in the way that they see things. I don't mean in a sexual way. He always took us into unexpected directions
what Isabel wants is to be initiated: even if it means being attracted to darkness | The Portrait of a Lady | Jane Campion / Henry James
Céline Delaugère, model, Eva Engines's CEO and cofounder of Eva Engines | Eva Search | Find the faces you need among a million profiles
Daisy Edgar-Jones: fake it until you make it | Normal People | Audiobooks narrated by Daisy Edgar-Jones
Emma Appleton: Feef Symonds, Traitors: There are no good or bad people, just people making good or bad decisions
Polina Semionova | Caravaggio | Staatsballett Berlin
Nicole Kidman / Isabel Archer: I think I have to begin by getting a general impression of life. I'm not afraid, you know | Jane Campion, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience: It got me thinking a lot about sex. Like, why is it so controversial? | Marvelously internalized, Riley Keough’s performances rarely seek to solve the slippery, confounding mysteries of her best characters
David Lynch / Terrence Malick: Garden of Eden / Promised Land, and the Fall of... | Mulholland Drive / To The Wonder | Could be someone's missing maybe / There's something missing
Stacy Martin: there’s always more outside, there’s always something else to discover, and there’s always another culture. You have no structure, you’re not creating anything. So you have to find your life again
Qin Lan: What’s it to you if I use my uterus or not? | 秦岚: 我的子宫使不使用, 关你什么事？
Taylor Swift: how to... de-program the misogyny in my own brain. There is no such thing as a slut, as a bitch. We don't want to be condemned for being multi-faceted
Emily Blunt: Write me as a guy, and I’ll do the girl stuff. Just write me as you would a guy: as complicated, as conflicted, as at-fault
Rooney Mara: ‘the girlfriend’ or whatever. There was no real person behind most of those characters
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: I am an in-between person. I feel like a boy and a girl | The Discomfort of Evening, narrated by Genevieve Gaunt | Winner of the International Booker Prize
Joan: If someone asked me to describe myself in a single word, depraved is the one I would use. Survivor is the second word | Animal by Lisa Taddeo, narrated by Emma Roberts
Ada Hegerberg: The one thing I would say to any girl is this: You can’t lose your fire. You can’t let anybody take your fire away from you
Richard Brody, Song to Song: a vast mental space that’s defined by the film’s mosaic-like editing. (No other recent film has as intricate and original an editing scheme.) | Terrence Malick
Natalie Portman: She's in great need, this guy comes along as sort of a savior in a way and then introduces her to a lot of darkness | Terrence Malick
Rooney Mara (Faye): I know you always want to know the truth, but... but I don't. Sometimes the truth isn't the right thing to say | Terrence Malick
Virginia Woolf: Those who fall foul of George Eliot do so on account of her heroines | one of the few English novels written for grown-up people | Juliet Aubrey reads 'Middlemarch'
Brit Marling: The moment we start imagining a new world and sharing it with one another through story is the moment that new world may actually come
Waltraud Meier / Jessye Norman: Oh Mensch! Gieb Acht! | Friedrich Nietzsche | Gustav Mahler
the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder | Nicole Kidman reads 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf
Brit Marling : Something I really learned from people we spent time with on the road is, they just do. They don’t wait for permission
Danielle Muir | Staatsballett Berlin | Half Life | Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar