Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

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

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

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going.

I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't always mention this part of directing, but it's also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.