I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.

When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple leaf and say, 'OK, it's good quality.'

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

I don't think a camera and a cameraman can destroy a family.

At home and in church - which I didn't go to a lot, I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, 'What's the shortest verse in the Bible?' and I was the one who always said 'John 11:35' straightaway. It stayed with me: the Bible has stayed with me.