Maggie Gyllenhaal

And I think that I have such a wish and a hope for interaction and connection.

And I think I often had to let go of having that in a really deep way with a director.

I mean, there are exceptions.

And there are times when I had it and those people...

I did my best work with them, probably.

I mean, I worked with Mike Nichols for one day as an actress in a reading of a play that we did on stage in New York.

And he gave me probably one of the best directions I've ever received.

And I knew that he wanted my mind in this.

I was playing Marie Curie.

He said, he sort of took me aside after the first read through and he said, come here.

He said, just one thing.

She's feral.

It's a great direction.

It's a great direction because it has no end in mind.

It's just basically saying, or no particular end in mind.

He's basically saying the wildest secret stuff in you, I want it.

And I mean, what an incredible thing, you know?

You know what's so funny about The Bride is just so naturally it's based on a really famous piece of IP.

There's a big action sequence in the first eight minutes.

You know, I mean, I mean, I guess I feel no, that that advice was not given to me explicitly.