178 Quotes by Juliette Lewis

What’s exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it’s the last untouchable medium. I don’t think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I’d imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.

Rock’n’roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

I know what I’m doing. And I even know when I don’t know what I’m doing. Then there are people who don’t want to know that you know what you’re doing.

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn’t know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don’t think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

What I get in rock ‘n’ roll that I don’t get in movies is that connection with people. With music it’s instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it’s really amazing. I love that connection.

With movies and TV, storytelling, it’s a different medium. I really love it, but I’m one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say ‘I’m a character actor’ then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That’s my boss. The director is interpreting the writer’s vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.