The film Punch – Drunk Love is how you see the world when you’re in love. You don’t see somebody’s psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light. – Emily Watson
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it’s very character driven. – Emily Watson
And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I’m taking you on a surprise date, you don’t know where you are going and you can’t see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. – Emily Watson
As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating. – Emily Watson
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn’t get in – twice. – Emily Watson
I sometimes feel like it’s difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public. – Emily Watson
It’s an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It’s like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can’t take that lightly. – Emily Watson
During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home. – Emily Watson
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. – Emily Watson
When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious. – Emily Watson
My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn’t have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It’s an interesting, subtle relationship. – Emily Watson
It’s a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it’s inexorable. – Emily Watson
I have to be a lot more calculating because I’m a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I’m generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it’s tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. – Emily Watson
My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I’m in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world. – Emily Watson
I don’t know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don’t have it right at all; it’s very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it’s all about me – I have a glorious career and he doesn’t. – Emily Watson
In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn’t affect me; I’d just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more. – Emily Watson
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. – Emily Watson
