In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

The only one who can make two wrongs equal a right, is He who works all things together!" HS/el

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

When it's football season, I'm all football.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

Every poker player is smarter than me.