I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

'The Little Mermaid' changed my life.