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

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.

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

Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

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.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.