“I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days be...” — Gaby Hoffmann Quote

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.

My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.

When I was in 4th grade, my mom was diagnosed with oral cancer. It was not looking good, it was serious when they found it. Obviously, I didn't know much about what was going on. I remember feeling a lot of guilt about it, feeling like I somehow contributed to it. I think that's just something that kids often do.

In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.