I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.