I am an anomaly in my country. I hope, in the coming years, there will be more women like me.

We cannot base our judgment on binaries such as a person's gender.

My understanding is the day I start looking at myself as a star is the day I will die as an actor.

I have dealt with criticism from my first drama, and I think that is a part of our profession. It brings me down but definitely pushes me to do better.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'