My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.