Latest Naomi Watts Quotes from Interviews

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  Naomi Watts

  Teacher, Interest, Craving

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I've done a few remakes now, as you know. And my philosophy is, you see the original film once, and that's it. You have to do whatever you can to shut it out, because you don't want your performance to be tainted. You don't want to fall into the trap of comparisons, basically.

  Naomi Watts

  Philosophy, Fall, Done

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I feel like I've been hit by a car every night, that's how I feel emotionally after The Race show. But it is a complete dream come true. For me growing up in New York all I ever wanted to do was Broadway.

  Naomi Watts

  Dream, Growing Up, Night

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• Since I had children I have taken huge amounts of time off. In a way it's a really good thing, in this show business especially, to have lots of private time, having lots of time to be in the world to observe people and read and take care of my kids helps me to come back into work with a thrill.

  Naomi Watts

  Children, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• At seventeen most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo or something slightly taboo. That is what I love about Rodrigo Garcia, he's not conventional. He's someone who sees people in extraordinary ways, and forgives them for being such.

  Naomi Watts

  Tattoo, People, Forgiving

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

  Naomi Watts

  Men, Thinking, Scary

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• Rodrigo Garcia is a brilliant writer. He just loves women. It is evident. When you are in the presence of him you can just tell he has a terrific understanding of women. He has two daughters, and he loves his wife.

  Naomi Watts

  Daughter, Wife, Understanding

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done is wildly intimidating and impressive. It is just scary to take on that responsibility, and you want to honor her story, an incredible story that affected us all. She is often doing things that were confusing to me, like her sexual prowess. I think that she is in a lot of pain and she has been really badly wounded along the way. She doesn't hold men in the highest regard... not just men but people.

  Naomi Watts

  Pain, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Leader, Directors

  "INSURGENT Interview: Shailene Woodley, Naomi Watts, and Octavia Spencer". Press conference, collider.com. March 20, 2015.

• I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.

  Naomi Watts

  Vision, Collaboration, Nerves

  "INSURGENT Interview: Shailene Woodley, Naomi Watts, and Octavia Spencer". Press conference, collider.com. March 20, 2015.

• Sometimes you arrive late in the process of filming, which makes it a little scary because they've already got this well-established technique going on, and all of the relationships are comfy and cozy. You have to figure out how to fit in, which can always be a scary first day.

  Naomi Watts

  Scary, Technique, Cozy

  Source: collider.com

• Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Nests, Our Family

  "INSURGENT Interview: Shailene Woodley, Naomi Watts, and Octavia Spencer". Press conference, collider.com. March 20, 2015.

• I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Careful, Borrowed Money

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.

• It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  Naomi Watts

  Directors, Scripts, Take Me

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.

• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project.

  Naomi Watts

  Teacher, Directors, Firsts

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  Naomi Watts

  Letting Go, Home, The End Of The Day

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.

• You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.

  Naomi Watts

  Land, Film, Nervous

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.

• The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

  Naomi Watts

  Use, Soapbox, Violence

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.

• I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back in the hotel room, and it does feel strange. But I love my work, though, it's not just a job for me, punching in my time card. I've always loved what I do, it's what makes me happy and I figure if I'm happy I'll be a good Mum too.

  Naomi Watts

  Baby, Jobs, Pieces

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

  Naomi Watts

  Silly, Thinking, Female

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It seems like a lot when you have three movies back to back but that's not really how it is.

  Naomi Watts

  Three, Seems

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

  Naomi Watts

  Mirrors, Looks, Growing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• We had met with Ben Stiller here in LA when I was shooting The Ring and he was doing Meet The Fockers and we have friends in common. But we didn't know each other well. He's fantastic and we really had a great time on this and we were both laughing at where we were at, this other couple, and how it was mirroring what we were going through as well. It was clever writing in that way.

  Naomi Watts

  Clever, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

  Naomi Watts

  Religious, Long, Meditation

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk