Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on what I remembered, the real experie…

- Maya Forbes

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, ther…

- Maya Forbes

It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving for…

- Maya Forbes

It's really kind of overwhelming and staggering to me how many people I know that have mental illness and there's not one thing that works. You just …

- Maya Forbes

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but…

- Maya Forbes

Tons of people want to see movies about women but they don't want to make them. I don't know why. I think that's insane because look at some of these…

- Maya Forbes

Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't have to hide the fact tha…

- Maya Forbes

I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things…

- Maya Forbes

I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourse…

- Maya Forbes