The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

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 a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.