Laura Dern

Thank you.

I, one, have gotten very blessed to be chosen.

So I don't know that... I think it's more about luck than the choosing.

And if we are lucky and as our careers evolve, we maybe get to do some of the choosing.

But when I was a kid and getting to watch my parents work with

incredible filmmakers.

I didn't know what was happening.

I was just a six, seven-year-old kid on set.

I fell in love with their relationship with filmmakers and what that felt like and looked like to see.

people understand or have an instinct about my parent in a way that I felt I knew them intimately, things that others didn't know about them.

And I thought, man, this is such a crazy dynamic that there are these people that get them in a way they may not even have caught up to in themselves.

So I sort of fell in love with that relationship before I even understood what acting was like.

And so I always dreamt of getting to work with

master filmmakers.

And, you know, I got lucky at a young age that extraordinary directors, you know, hired me.

Oh, yeah.

I remember when I was six, my summer vacation that became the year that I

then went to my parents and said, I wanted to start studying acting and became kind of obsessed with the idea of it, which seems so absurd now, but I just knew, I guess, you know, there are things you know about that you loved.

But my mom was doing Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore with Martin Scorsese.

And my dad was doing a film, Family Plot, with Alfred Hitchcock.