Michelle Williams - What others say about Michelle? - Page 2

JENNY_83 · 05-13-2006, 12:56 PM

Those are great quotes! Everyone just loves her.

**Shadowhunter** · 05-13-2006, 08:20 PM

Well, you can't blame them, since Michelle is just so adorable

JENNY_83 · 05-13-2006, 09:28 PM

That is what is so endearing about her; she is a really great person inside. How can you not want to be around someone like that?

novaleigh · 05-14-2006, 06:13 PM

You can really tell what a great person she is from all the great things other people say about her.

**Shadowhunter** · 05-29-2006, 01:44 AM

People love Michelle.

fabiolaribera91 · 05-29-2006, 07:52 AM

Diana Ossana: When Ennis met Alma, there may have been a physical attraction, but also a sense that, “this is what I’m supposed to do – get married and have children.” Ennis cares for Alma and loves her, but his love for her is not passion. It is nowhere near what he feels for Jack.
Alma is a girl from a lower-middle-class family with normal expectations. The two men in the story really don’t have a context for understanding and articulating their feelings for each other. I also don’t think Alma has any context for grasping Ennis’s and Jack’s relationship.
Joy Ellison: Michelle Williams and I took a trip through Wyoming and Montana. We went to some biker bars, and I taped people all the way. This is [now] decades later [than the movie’s periods], so accents are a little watered-down, but you can still get an essence. When an actor hears a tape of a rhythm from a native speaker, we can pick out sounds and work on them individually.
Michelle was born in Montana and left at an early age, but she still has that background and so she has a good sense of the rhythms and quality of the speech. Like a lot of trained actors, she let go of her regionalisms to be more flexible in other things they’re doing, so this was bringing her back.
Diana Ossana: Michelle’s a powerful presence, and she’s very moving as Alma. I have been impressed with her ever since Dawson’s Creek; I thought she brought a weight to that show that it otherwise didn’t have. Because of what Michelle brought to Brokeback Mountain, I think we get a true appreciation for Alma and her dilemma and loss.
Heath Ledger: Michelle’s ability to dive deep within her soul never ceased to amaze me. She’s a brilliant actress.
Ang Lee: It’s a very sad situation, and Michelle is very genuine about [portraying] it; she should rip your heart [out]. I like making dramas about conflict, through which you examine humanity – the complexities in human relationships – and see where we’re at. Dramatically, this was like a gold mine to me.
Marit Allen: Ang wanted to reflect the reality of the story, the places, the people and their economic situations. Ang, [cinematographer] Rodrigo Prieto and myself all studied Richard Avedon’s book Photographs of the American West. He took photographs in the 1960s, and revisited [the subjects] twenty years later. There was a photograph in the Avedon book that we took as the template for Alma. Michelle Williams understood it, and embraced it immediately.

novaleigh · 05-29-2006, 10:41 AM

thanks so much for those great quotes Fabiola!

**Shadowhunter** · 05-30-2006, 07:57 PM

Thanks for those quotes, Fabiola

That's so sweet what everyone says about Michelle.

novaleigh · 05-31-2006, 06:11 PM

they all say the sweetest things about her.

novaleigh · 06-16-2006, 03:38 PM

you can really tell what a sweet person she is by what her costars have said about her through the years.

**Shadowhunter** · 06-17-2006, 02:24 AM

You can.

*Shannon* · 06-17-2006, 08:44 AM

Great quotes!

novaleigh · 06-17-2006, 11:06 AM

Just reading what people say about her makes me want to meet her even more.

**Shadowhunter** · 06-23-2006, 09:32 PM

Rachel Bilson

"I love putting outfits; it is an amazing outlet for expressing who you are. My fashion icons are Diane Keaton as Annie Hall, Edie Segwick and Michelle Williams. Her Oscar dress was phenomenal."

novaleigh · 06-23-2006, 10:10 PM

what a cute quote, thanks for posting Ann