Julia Roberts: "I think her ideas are very ahead of their time, in that she
isn't married. So of course her students think she's a spinster because
she's over 30 and not married! So we have all these interesting concepts
about what the philosophy of success and the philosophy of contentment was
in 1953."
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Julia Roberts: "Incredible. There are five student characters and I think they're all
really well-defined, really interesting and performed beautifully by the
girls. Marcia Gay Harden plays another faculty member and she's
extraordinary - she's seemingly the reverse of Katherine and her ideals."
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Julia Roberts: "Until I started doing my research and reading some books and watching
some documentaries and stuff, I didn't realise how this moment really paved
the way for so much. And yet, we're kind of trapped because this is just
before the feminine mystique and all that kind of stuff, so we can't be too
clever. This is the cusp really, I think, of that revolution of the woman's
voice."
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Kirsten Dunst: "I'm very narrow-minded and I don't question anything, and
this is the way it's supposed to be. And I think everything's going to be
perfect once that bubble is filled. Everybody has certain things in their
mindset when they grow up, and to be faced with new things is a lesson that
we all learn."
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KD: "There's definitely an ease with working with women your own age, and I really admire all the girls I'm working with. I love that they're girls my
age who I'm working with who love it as much as I do."
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Kirsten Dunst: "He's so good. And he talks to everybody in the room all the time. Like
when we're doing big scenes with lots of extras and everything, he makes
sure that everybody understands what's going on. He's a smart man."
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Julia Stiles: "She's set on this track of getting married to the boyfriend
she's in love with and raising a family; that's always what she's expected
to do with her life. And in the back of her mind, there is that
possibility, and that sort of dream of going to law school, which Katherine
cultivates."
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Julia Stiles: "She's so generous, and I'm floored at how good an actress she is. I've
been watching her very closely, take after take, and she does everything
with a new slant so everything is fresh. It seems like she's doing it for
the first time, which is really hard when you're doing the same scene over
and over again."
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Julia Stiles: "I had so much fun with the other girls, we got along great. And then
you have these other actresses who are so accomplished, like Marcia Gay
Harden - she was hysterical."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: "That was what attracted me to it, the character I play.
I feel like she's dealing with things that are current and that a lot of
women my age are dealing with."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: "I, more than any of the other students, am immediately moved by her. I
see something in her that's different than anything I've found, and so
there's a kind of fascination. I don't think she really lets me down."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: "The camera was on her and she had a little speech to give. I watched
her just sort of click on and there was actual life behind her eyes, and it
was very focused, very strong. I think that's what her appeal is: she's a
focused, clear, strong woman."
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