As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.

Maya Hawke

I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.

Maya Hawke

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

Maya Hawke

Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.

Maya Hawke

One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.

Maya Hawke

I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

Maya Hawke

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

Maya Hawke

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Maya Hawke

My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth - not usually in that order - and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic.

Maya Hawke

I was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had.

Maya Hawke

I really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member.

Maya Hawke

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

Maya Hawke

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

Maya Hawke

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

Maya Hawke

The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.

Maya Hawke

Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.

Maya Hawke

In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.

Maya Hawke

I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.

Maya Hawke

I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

Maya Hawke

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

Maya Hawke

I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.

Maya Hawke