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 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.

In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

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

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

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