How did you two meet?
"All those things that you’re worried about are not important. You’re going to be OK. Better than OK. You’re going to be great. Spend less time tearing yourself apart, worrying if you’re good enough. You are good enough. And you’re going to meet amazing people in your life who will help you and love you." - Looking back, what advice would you give that 23-year-old Reese?
”I just recognize that about three years ago, I started seeing this complete lack of interesting female leads in film. First I got mad, really mad. And then I was like, “It’s nobody’s fault; if you’re not proactive about things …” I’d had a company before, but it was basically about trying to develop things that I would eventually be in. So I just switched the idea: If I can develop anything for any other women, I don’t care who it is; I just want my daughter to grow up seeing complex, interesting, nuanced women in film. So I started it with my own money.”
Reese Witherspoon photographed by Mikael Jansson for Vogue Magazine, October 2014.
The Real Reese Witherspoon
Vogue October 2014
Photo: Mikael Jansson Style: Tonne Goodman Model: Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon for Vogue (2014).
"I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy."
"It was beautiful. It was an amazing experience. Something I will never, ever, ever forget. It was so powerful and I referred to that meeting. I don’t know how that happened. How it is that I… It had such a profound impact on the way that I saw John and June and their relationship and that affected the film… To see them looking into each other’s eyes while they sang the song was magical. It was just absolutely magical. I referred to that moment many times throughout shooting. It’s hard not to be cynical about love… Most marriages and love affairs don’t last and so it was nice to witness that first-hand and know that it wasn’t something that was just fictionalized… That it really was that perfect which I still, even having witnessed it, find it hard to believe." —Joaquin Phoenix, on Meeting June Carter and Johnny Cash and watching them sing together