I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

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

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

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

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.