THR’s Actress Roundtable with Jennifer Lawrence, Brie Larson, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett and more

“The idea of someone sitting in a theater is very sacred to me. When I was growing up, that’s how I learned about the world. That’s how I learned about different cultures, different generations, different ways of being a woman. I believed every frame of every movie I saw, and as I got older, I realized that with moviemaking, we can trick people into believing anything we want. So I feel a great sense of responsibility with film to tell things as honestly as I can and to be as vulnerable as possible because vulnerability is the strongest thing you can do. I hope that in the films I make, you can be in a theater with twenty people, you’re ultimately alone when you watch it, and you can find new ways to relate to people that you thought you’d never have anything in common with. All these movies I’m doing are actually very old stories. They’re much older than I even have a time frame for. And they’re the stories of our lives, the way that we can process and make sense of this world, and feel like we’re connected to it.”

For @brielarson, the movie theater experience is sacred, vulnerable. #GoldenGlobes #backstage https://t.co/7AJT4i8bSK

— Variety (@Variety) January 11, 2016