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I Felt Beautiful When I Was In Cambodia For Tomb Raider. I Was Sweaty, And My Hair Was Matted And All Over The Place. And I Was Happy And Hot And Accomplishing A Lot And Running Around, And I Could Feel My Heart Beating, And I Felt Beautiful.

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I Felt Beautiful When I Was In Cambodia For Tomb Raider. I Was Sweaty, And My Hair Was Matted And All Over The Place. And I Was Happy And Hot And Accomplishing A Lot And Running Around, And I Could Feel My Heart Beating, And I Felt Beautiful.

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The Interesting Thing For Me Is That Everybody Felt That I Was Really Wild When I Was Unbalanced And Desperate To Communicate Something And Didn't Have A Sense Of Purpose. But I've Never Been So Crazy And Wild As I Am With My Son Or As I Am Now.

I Think What Children Can Handle And What They're Interested In Is Much Deeper Than People Assume. It's Why Sometimes We Make Things Too Simple For Them.

They Say It's Better Than Sex. It's So Much Better. It's Amazing.

The Mind Wants To Forget Because It Weighs So Much On The Heart And Soul. I Am Tired Of Crying And Feeling So Helpless. I Want To Breathe Again -just For A Little While.

I Love Doing Lesbian Love Scenes. Before I Did My Lesbian Scenes In Gia, I Talked To Actresses Who Said Love Scenes Are Easier With Another Woman Than A Man. Bound's Gina Gershon And Jennifer Tilly Said They'd Lie There And Discuss The Sale At Barney's Between Takes.

I'm A Very Private Person. I Don't Go Out Much. I'm Home With Kids. I Go To Work. I Don't Really Like Being The Focus Of Attention, Which Is Why I Like Being Behind The Camera More.

The Older Ones Recently Saw Mr And Mrs Smith And I Think They Thought That Was The Funniest Thing They'd Ever Seen Because, Of Course, Watching Your Parents Fight As Spies Is Some Strange Sort Of Childhood Fantasy.

I Like The Feeling Of Being Dominated

The Loss Of A Child Is My Greatest Nightmare.

Loss Of A Child

I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply.

I Went Through A Period When I Felt My Film Characters Were Having More Fun Than I Was. It Might Partly Explain Why I Ended Up Tattooed Or Doing Certain Extreme Things In My Life.

Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

Life Comes With Many Challenges. The Ones That Should Not Scare Us Are The Ones We Can Take On And Take Control Of.

I'd Like There To Be Less Refugees. I'd Like All Girls To Go To School. That's What We Need To Be Thinking About, And Working On Making Our Own Families Good And Strong And Our Own Kids Happy.

It Is Not Where You Start Out In Life That Counts The Most, It Is How You Choose To Face It.

We Talk About Orphanages, We Talk About Their Countries And Differences, And It’s A Source Of Excitement And Pride. I’ve Heard Maddox Explain To Zahara When They Are Talking About Pregnancy, ‘no, Zee, Remember, You Were In That Nice African Woman’s Belly. I Was In That Nice Cambodian Woman’.

I'm Not A Single Mom With Two Jobs, Trying To Get By, Every Day. I Have Much More Support Than Most Women, Around This World, And I Have The Financial Means To Have A Home And Help With Care And Food.

Different Is Good. When Someone Tells You That You Are Different, Smile And Hold Your Head Up And Be Proud.

The Nice Thing About Being A Director Is That I Can Say, "i Can Only Get Into The Room After The Kids Are At School, And I Have To Be Back For Dinner. And They're Coming For Lunch."

I Make It A Point Not To Buy Certain Magazines, Not Because I Am Against Tabloids Or Things Like That, But I Want To Fill My Mind With Valid Issues In The World.

I Think We Should Try To Be Responsible And Educate Ourselves. I'm Simply Doing That And Traveling, Learning First Hand, And Seeing First Hand What's Going On.

I Like To Work With Artists From Around The World. There Are So Many New Inspiring Filmmakers. I Had The Privilege Recently To Work With Ethiopian Filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari And His Wife On The Film Difret. They Are That Unique Balance Of Very Thoughtful Conscious Filmmakers Who Are Also Brilliant, Original Artists.

I've Never Lived My Life In The Opinion Of Others. I Believe I'm A Good Person. I Believe I'm A Good Mom. But That's For My Kids To Decide, Not For The World.

I Like Everything. Boyish Girls, Girlish Boys, The Heavy And The Skinny. Which Is A Problem When I'm Walking Down The Street.

Nature Is About Balance. All The World Comes In Pairs - Yin And Yang, Right And Wrong, Men And Women; Whats Pleasure Without Pain?

I Wonder Why Guys Mistreat And Disrespect Girls. But Then They Expect Life To Hand Them A Good Woman When They're Older And Ready To Settle Down?

I'm Somebody Who Works Within Cambodia, With Cambodians. I Work Alongside The Artists And Society To Work From Within, So That Is The Focus, And From That I Hope Everybody Who Believes In Democracy, In Certain Freedoms, Will Get Louder, Will Grow Their Voices.

First Thing In The Morning, We're Really Tired, And We Look At Each Other And We Wonder, 'are We Ever Going To Get Sleep?' And Yet, It Doesn't Matter If You Don't Get Sleep. It's An Honor To Take Care Of Them.

I'm Always Doing Something. I Never Shut My Brain Off.

Like Every Parent, When You Start Your Family, Your Life Completely Changes. And You Completely Live For Someone Else. I Find That The Most Extraordinary Thing. Your Life Is Handed Over To Someone Else. From That Moment On, They Come First In Every Choice You Make. It's The Most Wonderful Thing.

Barefoot Or First Thing In The Morning, I Feel Beautiful. I Didn't Always Feel That Way, But I Feel That Way Now. When Somebody Loves You, And When You Make Somebody Else Happy, When Your Presence Seems To Make Them Happy, You Suddenly Feel Like The Most Beautiful Person In The World.

Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures. We Have A Responsibility To Be Aware Of Others And I Believe This Will Inspire The Individual Way Each Person Can Make Their Difference.

I Usually Make Up Stories For My Kids.i Like To Tell Them Stories And Make Up Any Kind Of Crazy To Involve Them In Characters. The Kind Of Fairytales I Don't Like Are The Ones With Happy Endings, Where There's Just Good And Evil And Things Are Perfect. I Think When There's A Good Story For Children It Has A Moral Tale, So That's What I Try To Teach My Kids.

It's Great To Jump Into Things You're Not Sure Of And You Haven't Done And That Are A Little Scary. That's What We Have To Do, As Artists.

But We Survived, And We're A Good Family. I Just Don't Want To Dedicate One More Tear, Or Watch My Mother Cry One More Time.

You'd Think, 'what If I Make A Mistake Today, I'll Regret It'. I Don’t Believe In Regret, I Feel Everything Leads Us To Where We Are And We Have To Just Jump Forward, Mean Well, Commit And Just See What Happens.

I'd Love To Have A Great Relationship With My Father. And Unfortunately... I Don't.

Great Relationship

I Honestly Want To Help. I Don't Believe I Feel Differently From Other People. I Think We All Want Justice And Equality, A Chance For A Life With Meaning.

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