I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.

I started playing golf when I was just out of college and starting my career with KPMG. I took a few lessons, and my husband has always loved to give me pointers - for better and for worse! I realized that you could really enhance relationships by being on the course with clients. In fact, my very first golf game was with some clients.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.