Katherine Waterston Quotes

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

I've always despised the hippies.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.