“I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lo...” — Emily Watson Quote

“I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.”

“I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.”

“Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.”