Goldie Hawn on Working With Amy Schumer: She's a 'Genius'

— -- After more than a decade out of the spotlight, Goldie Hawn will make her return to the big screen alongside Amy Schumer, and the Oscar winner said she couldn’t be more excited.

“When I got this thing with Amy, I went, ‘Wait a minute,’” Hawn said of their planned mother-daughter comedy. “I’m so excited about working with her. She’s such a brilliant genius of a comedian.”

Hawn, 70, spent her years off-screen creating MindUP, a program that teaches school children how to relax their brains, be mindful, learn to listen and focus on acts of kindness.

“Our research has proved that it's working,” said in an interview that aired today on “Good Morning America.” “Bullying has gone down. Children are now able to make themselves happier.”

The “First Wives Club” actress is passionate about teaching the techniques to children because she said meditation changed her life starting in the 1970s.

“I reached a time when I was very anxious,” Hawn recalled. “I got picked out of chorus line and suddenly I'm on television.”

She added, “I went to a psychologist because I was feeling panicky. I would have panic attacks.”

Once Hawn began meditating, she said the practice made her a more patient and loving mother to her daughter, Kate Hudson, and her sons, Wyatt Russell and Oliver Hudson.

“We group text together. We're a very tight family,” she said.

Hawn also credits being mindful with helping to strengthen her more than 30-year relationship with actor Kurt Russell.

“I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person,” she said. “I think that's what makes a successful marriage, a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.”

The actress also has a clear answer when asked how she finds happiness.

“I think it isn't about finding happiness,” Hawn said. “It's about staying mindful about what makes you happy, and those are two different things.”