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Kate Winslet has shared the life advice she swears by.
On Thursday the 50-year-old filmmaker attended a Q&A for her movie Goodbye June, held at Paris Theater in New York City.
'What was your best director note for you, the actor, playing Julia?' she was asked at one point.
'Don't f*ck it up,' the star answered plainly in a video obtained by John Pascarella, eliciting a room full of laughter. She lightheartedly added, 'I think that's always my note to myself anyway.'
The drama, written by her 21-year-old son Joe Anders, marks Winslet's directorial debut.
It was released in a limited number of theaters on December 12, and will premiere on Netflix on December 24.
Kate Winslet has shared the life advice she swears by during a Q&A event in NYC this week - 'Don't f*ck it up'; pictured on December 8
Winslet pictured in NYC on Wednesday
The film follows four siblings gathering together to support their mother as her health declines.
The titular character June is played by Helen Mirren, with Timothy Spall as her husband Bernie, and Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, and Johnny Flynn joining Winslet in playing their children.
The project brought up feelings about Winslet's own mother, Sally Bridges-Winslet, who died from ovarian cancer in 2017.
Speaking to Daily Mail, she shared that was 'really upset' after moving Bridges-Winslet into a private ward towards the end of her life, as her mother had only ever wanted to be treated by the UK's National Health Service.
She confessed: 'When my mother died she did end up on a private ward. We all felt horribly conflicted about it.
'I'm really sharing now, because I haven't said any of this… her oncology care had been entirely NHS and just towards the end something happened to her and the only bed we could get for her quickly was on a private ward.
'We all felt really upset for her, because she was so adamant she wanted NHS all the way.'
Inspired by his grandmother's passing, Anders penned the script during a screenwriting course.
Goodbye June, written by Winslet's 21-year-old son Joe Anders, marks her directorial debut; pictured December 8
The film follows four siblings gathering together to support their mother as her health declines. June is played by Helen Mirren, with Winslet playing one of her children
Appearing on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast this week, the Oscar winner said that nearly ten years after losing her mom, her death still feels like it happened 'yesterday.'
She shared that she struggled to keep thoughts of her mother at bay while starring in the film as June's daughter Julia.
'It wasn't necessarily cathartic, but there were days when I was literally reliving what happened when I lost my own mum, even though our film is fictional. And I would find myself strangely trying to almost hide in a funny way,' the star reflected.
The actress added, 'So in the more intimate scenes, perhaps between Helen Mirren and Tim Spall, I would just sit very quietly in the room that we were shooting in and I would hide behind Max, our lovely focus puller, and I would just sit with him quietly watching his monitor and sort of crying on his back.'
The Titanic star described Max as 'a great spirit to sort of sidle up to in those moments' when she was unable to keep her 'private experience separate' from playing Julia.
