Meryl Streep in ‘state of anxiety’ for every project

“I come to every project thinking I don’t know anything. It serves me to begin blank and to try to forget the 900 other movies, my reputation … or whatever horrible obstruction there is to creating a new character. I put myself in a state of anxiety …”—Meryl Streep, quoted in George Stevens Jr.’s book, “Conversations at the American Film Institute With The Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation, From the 1950s to Hollywood Today”