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 will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

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

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

America and China need to understand each other.

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.