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.

I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

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

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

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.