Angelina Jolie's mother, Marcheline would write letters to Jolie's characters

Angelina Jolie's mother, Marcheline would write letters to Jolie's characters. 

She shared at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where she received the event's highest honour, the Maltin Modern Master Award, 'My mother would write letters to my characters - Dear Gia, Dear Lisa Rowe, Dear Lara Croft - and for the last 16 years, I haven't had those letters.'

She reflects on what her mother might have written to her role, real-life opera singer Maria Callas, "I try to imagine sometimes what she would write, and she would probably have told Maria that she loved her because Maria had many things but she never had a mother's love".

"I would be absolutely nothing without mine. She passed away many years ago at this time of year, so it's always this weather that reminds me of her".

"And that feeling and that sensibility that makes that actually hard for me is part of what is my work and what connects many artists to their work, and I know I'm not alone in this."