Katherine Waterston quotes:

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

I didnt find it difficult to live in the Inherent Vice world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate it hard because it's not every day that you get it.

I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin,

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actors life.

What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.