I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.

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.

When people go through a fight, they're saying things because they hurt, and they want to hurt the person back. Sadly, that's the nature of a relationship. It's one moment where you aren't very adult, but that's how love and a certain passionate relationship exists. When you love someone, it doesn't mean you become a perfect human being, do you?

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

For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.

And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.