Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.