Having been an actress was also good because I know how to talk to the actors. I know what comes through and what doesn't and often times I've worked with a director whose directions I knew I'd just better not try to listen to because it messes you up. So, having had an acting background really helped. |
How I was raised is what I am today. |
I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one. |
I did somehow manage to get into a college in China that trains diplomats when I was 17, one year before my peers could go, which is very very difficult. I was very proud I did. |
I don't believe beauty exists without suffering-that's just a tourist picture in a travel agency, which isn't beautiful to me. |
I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes. |
I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it. |
I felt extremely comfortable and at home on the set and actually I did homework about breaking down the scenes and often had shot lists in a rough way, but it was actually extremely spontaneous. Working with David Lynch-he is so spontaneous. |
I got married when I was 23. |
I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there. |
I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody. |
I read a lot. On location that's all I do. I've been reading very many different books. I used to follow writers, and whatever book they wrote, I would go buy right away. |
I sort of stopped acting for about five or six years. I was at this awkward age. I felt that now that I am no longer young, my acting career is over. And so I sort of put myself in the wine cellar and I aged for like five, six years and now I'm uncorked and it was pretty good. It was the right taste. |
I submitted the script and they gave me a list of changes to make, and I did not agree with the changes. |
I think a good sign is when you don't go to bed with people right away. I think you treasure it more. A lot of people, one date or third date or fourth date, you gotta go to bed. It's silly. |