I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

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.

I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.

If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.