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"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."

"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years."

"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."

"I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself."
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"I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity."

"I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way."

"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company."

"When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over."

"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something."

"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother."
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