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

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.