"I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing"
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The second sentence is the tell. “I’m also doing more writing and directing” reads like the practical plan under the joke: if the roles won’t expand, she’ll expand the job description. In 2020s Hollywood, that pivot isn’t a vanity project; it’s career survival, and it’s also a power move. Writing and directing are where the authorship lives, where you stop auditioning for someone else’s imagination and start building worlds that can actually hold you.
Douglas’s context matters: she’s long been associated with sharp, character-driven work and a cinephile’s sensibility, the kind of performer who thrives on specificity rather than glamour. Wanting animation isn’t about fleeing reality so much as refusing its constraints. It’s the comic way to say: let me be uncontainable. And if the medium can’t make room, she’ll make the room herself.
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Douglas, Illeana. (2026, January 17). I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-be-an-animated-character-im-also-doing-68338/
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Douglas, Illeana. "I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-be-an-animated-character-im-also-doing-68338/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-be-an-animated-character-im-also-doing-68338/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.







