Bryce Dallas Howard

“Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.”

“I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.”

“You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.”

“Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.”

“When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.”

“When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'”

“My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.”

“As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.”

“There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.”

“When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.”

“I did karate for years and years and years.”

“My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.”

“My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'”

“My parents have been together since they were 16 years old.”

“I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.”

“I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.”

“It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.”

“Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.”

“There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.”

“Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.”