I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
“I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.”
“And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.”