Golden Globe Winners on Fresh Air:

Michelle Williams

Morgan Freeman

Woody Allen

Laura Dern

Homeland creator Howard Gordon

Idris Elba

Martin Scorsese

George Clooney

Alexander Payne (writer/director, The Descendants)

Also: host Ricky Gervais

Michelle Williams on getting her GED at 15: “I feel like I missed out on a good education, but it’s a trade-off. The plus is that then afforded me 6.5 years of practice, of work and acting class, being on Dawson’s Creek and being able to experiment and say, ‘Am I better when I know all of my lines, and I’ve really known them?’ or ‘Am I better when I’m kind of off-balance a little bit because I’m tired?’ It’s that Malcolm Gladwell thing of 10,000 hours [to achieve proficiency in a subject]. I definitely have 10,000 hours in front of a camera, thanks to that show. So I got a different kind of education, but I do find myself — now I’m 30 — feeling frustrated with the limitations of my own mind.”

Michelle Williams on rejection: [full interview here] “I think that’s the most dangerous part [of the business] and why it’s something I wouldn’t want for my own daughter, family or friends because that rejection really leaves its mark on you.”

This might be my one chance to post a picture of the Dawson’s Creek cast. (Michelle Williams is our guest tomorrow.) (Related: JamesVanDerMemes)

annie-chang:

You always hurt the ones you love
The one you shouldn’t hurt at all
You always take the sweetest rose
And crush it till the petals fall………

Tomorrow: actress Michelle Williams, director Kelly Reichardt

I frankly found it hard to watch Michelle Williams without thinking about her break-up with Heath Ledger, the father of her child, and the impact of his subsequent death. That’s not a problem, though — if anything, it makes her seem more vulnerable.

— Film critic David Edelstein, on the Ryan Gosling/Michelle Williams drama Blue Valentine.