Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

Acting is actually private.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.