To be honest, nobody in this industry is your friend, but you can be friendly with everybody. I share a great rapport with a lot of people. But it's not the kind of friendship that I have with my school friends.

I am the queen of my own life and never take any pressure.

As an actor, you know you can do so many things. What happens is when you do one thing well, everybody wants you to keep doing that.

I let go of a lot of good things because I didn't want to keep repeating the same thing.

There are so many stories being told on OTT, and it gives us a chance to do a variety of things. It gives us a chance to be fearless with choosing roles.

People spend money to buy followers because having a big following means something - maybe to brands or to somebody who is casting you.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.