Gaby Hoffmann

I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. ”

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. ”

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. ”

It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure. ”

I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. ”

If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love. ”

I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long. ”

I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there. ”

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. ”

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money. ”