105 Quotes by Katie Aselton

You can’t sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, “But, it’s just not coming to me.” That’s an instinctual thing to do because that’s the way the business normally works. But, when you’ve got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.

Whole class of filmmakers, they’re all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

The director of 500 Days of Summer is doing the Spider-Man movie. That’s not necessarily the movies I want to make, but it’s all about the story, and if you connect to the story, and you feel you can tell that story better than anyone else, then great. Jon Favreau killed Iron Man, I loved it.

I think a lot of times, when you’re working in this business, and you’re both actors or somehow involved in the industry, you can get torn in different directions and be on completely opposite schedules.

By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you’ve got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you’re only in your thirties – you’re not that far away from your twenties, which is when you’re making all of your stupid mistakes.

I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they’re compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.

I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don’t mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they’re all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.

The thriller genre in general, it’s total foreign ground for me.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn’t have a football team, so it’s the one sport I didn’t bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.