Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

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.

I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.