I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

Something I was adamant about was that the movie [Everybody Lovess Somebody] wouldn't end with, oh, marriage saved [the main character]. They're married and she's OK. I was very pushing on having the ending be that she made an inner growth of healing so that she can then have the ability and the space to love and be loved by someone else, and that love is open-ended and doesn't mean they're going to get married tomorrow and all her problems are solved.

I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that definitely has helped my life be worthwhile and better.

All the products that are sold to us - those anti-aging products - are telling us that there's a due date.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] one really loves both cultures, represents them in a very accurate, genuine, authentic, fun, fresh way, and it includes so many more people because it has that language aspect to it.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.