"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."

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"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."

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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

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"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

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"I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age."

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"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."

Experience

"I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast."

Talk

"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."

Work

"I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work."

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"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."

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"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films."

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"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body."

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"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it."

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