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I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think the audience gets bored very easily, and it's really important to keep experimenting.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.