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.

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

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.

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.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

I would say it's like a meditative process, to have everything done for you every morning.