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" I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way. "

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" I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade. "

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" I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it. "

" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

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" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "

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Pregnant

" I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "

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Drag

" I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. "

" I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties. "

" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "

" I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square. "

" I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?' "

" I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part. "

" Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Deal

Family

" I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one. "

" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "

" I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing. "

" I actually voted for Nader. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Actually

Voted

" I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea. "

" I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "

" We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. "

" I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "

" It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets. "

" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "

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Lot

Improv

" When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' "

" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "

" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "

" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "

" I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Twitter

Five

" I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more. "

" My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory. "

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Family

New York

" I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together. "