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It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Maya Forbes
Wrestling, Addiction, Want
"'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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 experience of seeing somebody like that. And as an adult, I’ve had family members who are bipolar, so I’ve seen it again.

Maya Forbes
Real, Years, Bipolar
"Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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, there's something very potent.

Maya Forbes
People, Suffering, Sometimes
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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 yourself. It can be positive too.

Maya Forbes
Journey, Issues, People
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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 forward.

Maya Forbes
Moving, Want, Way
"Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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 have to go on your search. It's like a journey of, "How am I gonna get well?"

Maya Forbes
Get Well, Journey, People
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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 big movies like Maleficent, they're huge. It's ridiculous. So, it is really hard but I'm determined to do something about that.

Maya Forbes
Thinking, People, Insane
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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 I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

Maya Forbes
Parent, Things Change, Feels
"'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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 that I'm manic-depressive. You can tell people that's who I am. It's - explains a lot about your situation.

Maya Forbes
Father, Who I Am, People
"'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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 I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.

Maya Forbes
Long, Giving, Hollywood
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