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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

Vera Farmiga

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Vera Farmiga
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 6
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Clifton
New Jersey
Vera Ann Farmiga
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But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.
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Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.
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I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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My husband is my best friend he knows my sensibilities.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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The writers could always do an about-face and change everything
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You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.
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The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.
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