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I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.