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.

When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

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.

Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.

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