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.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

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

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.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

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