When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

Whether it's friendship or love. The essence of is two people trying to share something. When I think of how I met my best friends, it was always like love at first sight.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy.