Naomi Watts said on Tuesday that she almost quit acting before David Lynch cast her in Mulholland Drive.

Naomi Watts remembers David Lynch and how “instrumental” he was in her Hollywood career. In a new interview, the Mulholland Drive star revealed how the filmmaker kept her from quitting acting. “[Lynch] was very instrumental to me even being in America,

Noting that when she met the "Twin Peaks" writer and director she was “10 years into flunking auditions,” Watts added, “Nothing was happening. I was literally alienating people, making them uncomfortable,