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

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

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

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

There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.