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Naomi Watts Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: September 28, 1968

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Work Great Me Teachers Way Project

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

Work Outdoors Doing Bread Know Eat

When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

Stephen Graham Jones

Heart Mind Late Two Fiction Being

When I realized that my big dream was going to come true - 'Night Shift' was a success, 'Splash' was a success, I got the job to do 'Cocoon' - suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.

Success Job Night Name Career Dream

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

World Famous Person Like Most

I had to take false steps and go through hard times to come out to where I am now. I can't imagine living without acting. It's not easy, and I don't disrespect anyone who steps out of it after a certain point. Having a family and a house is cool. It's not a betrayal. But if you're going to be an actor, it has to be more than a passing interest.

Marylouise Burke

Family I Am Cool Disrespect Acting

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

Think American Okay Attack Percent

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

Father Opportunity Hope Men Step Up

Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.

Time Game Plan You Be Prepared Go

I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'

School Curiosity You Cinema Say

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

Music Sunshine People Me Dark Roof

I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

People Uniform Some People Move Some

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

Leadership People Me Brand Better

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