Gaby Hoffmann

My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.

I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.

Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'