Naomi Watts

How did you get involved with Funny Games? A good friend told me to look into it, and when I did me and Michael [Haneke, Director of Funny Games] really hit it off. He's a really talented director. I...

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- Cole's going to name a category. He'll say "name three things," and we have five seconds to name those three things, in whatever the category is. I'll go...
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely...

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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the...

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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten...

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