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For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.