Only when you poeticize something does it become universal. I believe when your experience is more crystallized through distance and time, you're more able to poeticize something. |
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice. |
Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today. |
The acting in China is very stylized and dramatic, and I was just me. |
The army was a desirable place to be. It offered a more disciplined life than the countryside. |
The author wrote the novella based on her friend. So it was a true story, ... When I was reading the novella -- she wrote it in such a visual, well-textured way, that I saw in it a poignantly beautiful film. And that is how my generation in China came of age. |
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. |
The factory that I work with, all the products are on the shelf, they are existing products. I can go and enhance it. The perfume is 60% mine. |
The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet. |
The mainstream welcomes kung fu films - martial art films, right? So that's one type of Chinese-ness that's welcome. |
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. |
There are a few stories that I like, but I don't know how to approach them because there's no part for me-just books I read. |
There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype. |
There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail! |
There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires. |