My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.