We need to humanize women instead of making the idea of a woman be so stigmatized. That’s what’s interesting to me as a writer and a director – being able to tell stories that represent women as human beings and don’t relate specifically to their gender. I want to just allow them to have their journeys.
-Clea DuVall
Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.
-Clea DuVall
I’ve gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.
-Clea DuVall
I keep to myself, but I love life.
-Clea DuVall
The expectations of women are sometimes so unfair.
-Clea DuVall
I think audiences definitely respond to people who are not living the perfect lives. The flawed characters, the people who are struggling. The antiheroes – people like to see that a lot more.
-Clea DuVall
I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don’t like any of those words. I don’t like any of those labels. I think they’re limiting.
-Clea DuVall
It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.
-Clea DuVall
When the scene is over, a lot of people cut. The actors are acting. And they just stop acting. But I think that leaving people in that moment and seeing where else it can go and pushing them to take it further, a lot of special things can happen.
-Clea DuVall
I try to keep an open mind but I’m so tired of the mediocrity.
-Clea DuVall
I like horror movies, they’re fun. It was the most fun I’ve had on a movie set.
-Clea DuVall
I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
-Clea DuVall
Being on a set for one day is hard enough no matter what it is. You’re the new guy, and you go in, and as you get comfortable it’s over.
-Clea DuVall
Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.
-Clea DuVall
It takes years to readjust dynamics and relationships, and to overnight create the new dynamic, I was surprised by how challenging that was for me personally.
-Clea DuVall
I don’t know about “dream role.” I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.
-Clea DuVall
I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.
-Clea DuVall
My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.
-Clea DuVall