Interview Quotes

On Fame and Authenticity

"Such a big part of my job was trying to think three steps ahead of how everything that I would say could negatively impact the film that I was trying to do justice to... And so interviews to me felt a lot like chess and it required so much energy."

— Emma Watson • 00:05:03

"I think we most of us live in a state of like, I'm just trying to kind of figure it out and keep it together. And the only thing that is different between us is people's willingness to be honest about that, the degree to which they can admit to, actually, I'm just like scrabbling around trying to keep the pieces together."

— Emma Watson • 00:13:38

Personal Growth and Learning

"If you want to move three steps forward, you have to go three steps deep first. What I found often in my life is I'm trying to go four steps forward and I haven't yet gone four steps deep."

— Jay Shetty • 00:17:59

"I think that was when I started to learn, oh, actually me being uncomfortable in a space might be a good sign because it might mean I'm about to learn something."

— Emma Watson • 00:23:09

"It's not that it's not true. It's that it's not complete. And mostly when we see people say things or share ideas, it's very rare to have anyone ever share a complete idea because that means they would have had to think about it from every single vantage point."

— Jay Shetty • 00:24:28

Navigating Relationships and Intimacy

"I really want to be with someone that I can learn from. And I hope that, yeah, as you say, it has the humility to be willing to learn from me."

— Emma Watson • 01:14:40

"I've just got to this place where it's just, if it costs me any part of my peace, it's just too expensive."

— Emma Watson • 00:39:15

"Truth without kindness is brutality and kindness without truth is manipulation."

— Emma Watson • 01:36:31

The Importance of Art as Therapy

"Truthfully, I feel this urgency and desperation to communicate this specific piece, which is: make art about your experiences. Whatever you think people know about you or they know about your life or how you feel about it, they don't. And they need you to write poems, write songs, make pictures, write plays."

— Emma Watson • 01:03:57

"I realized the scary, crazy thing about... intimacy is that it seems to be conditional on your ability to keep telling the truth and perhaps even revealing deeper and deeper and deeper truths at the risk that that truth might mean that that person might not continue to choose you."

— Emma Watson • 01:26:46