Gaby Hoffmann

I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world. ”

I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. ”

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. ”