On Her Characters
On Lisa Connelly
"I don't know her, and I try not to judge people." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"I had to come up with my own interpretations based on the book, and the script, and Larry's vision... people I know, whatever's in my head." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"I had sympathy for her but not for her actions and the choices she made." (2002, Time Out London, interview by Jessica Cargill Thompson)
"Just so you know, that's not me." (2001, Nylon Magazine, interview by Tamara Ikenberg)
"It's really very hard to get me angry. I don't have a real violent instinct at all. The way in which I connected to her was through her protective instinct, because I do know that. If I thought the only way to protect the person I love was to kill someone, I'd be capable of it. The hard thing for me was not being afraid I could kill someone, it was making my reality so different from society's." (2001, Nylon Magazine, interview by Tamara Ikenberg)
"I played her with the idea that her rules were very different than most of our rules, partially because she was so isolated. You spend a lot of time alone in your head and you can make up different rules because you're not really in society." (2001, File Magazine, Interview by Simon Dumenco)
"Lisa was very, very protective of Marty. He was her number one priority. He was her law, you know?" (2001, File Magazine, Interview by Simon Dumenco)
"I think she's very sad and lonely and she fell madly, madly in love, and he was everything to her. And she would do anything to protect that. And I certainly understand that instinct. I understand what it feels like to want to protect someone you love and... and to really feel capable of doing anything for them." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"... I think when you feel you have nothing and no one to care about and no one who cares about you, and then you're suddenly given this gift of having someone ... no matter ... I don't think it mattered, almost, who it was." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"I think she probably lived in her head a lot of the time. 'cause when you're lonely that's what you do. I know I've been there." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"And she probably just didn't, I mean, didn't have a sense -- a grasp -- on what the reality of what taking someone's life was." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"She was abused ... psychologically and physically ... and she put up with that." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"I think that shows partly that she didn't care, she just needed ... she needed him [Marty] so badly. She needed to have that." "... she could make him out to be this perfect lover, this perfect guy even though he was doing all these awful things." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
"But in truth, I don't know what actually happened, and I try not to judge that because I know in interviews the real Lisa Connelly has said that none of this stuff about her planning the murder and all is true. Of course I can't think that way when I'm ... when I'm playing the part." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
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