I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

It's not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, "This is good, let's try it like this." I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, "That's good, that's good." That's very frustrating because - it's nice to know something is good but you know it can always change.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.

The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."