I'm angry about stereotypes about Asians, but I'm not bitter about not getting enough roles. I do see myself as being very fortunate, and see the change in the industry. |
I'm being more selective. I don't think I've made any sacrifices or anything. |
I'm going back to work in China. Chinese movies are getting very very strong now. I'm going back in December to work on a movie based on a classical novel. I play a woman who loves decadence. |
I'm sure I had a certain presence. It just happened. I didn't have too big of a problem with it because my family grounded me very well and I didn't understand what fame is and the corruption that fame could bring. I was too naive. I was very much a kid. I believed that people just loved me. |
I've received e-mails telling me about the protests ... friends who have gone back to work for American firms ... they are very, very worried and a little scared, ... I am a little scared. Every time tension like that builds up, I feel like I am not trusted by the Americans. I'm not trusted by the Chinese. I'm not trusted by anybody. |
If my publicist says you have to be a certain way, I say, Yeah, okay. That's the way the public likes to perceive me. It's all fine, that's part of the business. |
If you don't talk about any commitment or a shared future in three months, I don't think you're sincere. |
If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it. |
In a way, I think I made a more aesthetic choice than a political one, but politics was so part of my everyday life when I was growing up, ... I guess that was inevitable, but it was in our upbringing and education that no beauty can be achieved without suffering. |
In China we use the word baptism a lot, it's a very revolutionary word. |
It can be resolved, I'm sure. |
Ma's world is so narrow, ... She's always been an appendage of someone else. That's how her father brought her up. So you ache for her to experience life ... to become liberated, emancipated. |
My brother is a brilliant artist. His oil paintings are really beautiful. And he was the one that taught me what to see - how to see. Colors, lights. And how lights can be so musical. |
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. |
Now I have a family. I have a real home, a place I really want to come back to. I get really homesick before because there wasn't much to be missed. |