To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.