I would love to return to China one day to make films. I've been away for too long, so I'll need to spend some time back home before I can come up with an idea.
I went to study in Spain for a year after school. It was either that or Russian, so I went for the easy option. I love Spain and go quite regularly. I've done a bit of Spanish theatre.
I feel like I've had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I've played in hundreds and hundreds of games.
I have eight years of experience in Spain.
I moved to London when I was 19 and went to a three-year drama-and-conservatory training. I lived there for almost ten years.
When I was 16 I took the first opportunity I had to play basketball in a different country. I flew to Europe for the first time and found myself in the small town of Macon, in France. That was the first time I lived far away from my people, from my culture. I was young and had to adapt quickly.
I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.
When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.
I'm a city girl from Seoul City, where I grew up, to Tokyo & Paris.
I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.
The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.
I had a normal upbringing, studied in Chaitanya Vidyalaya till class VIII, went to Australia for two years, returned and did my Inter at Oakridge. I wasn't inclined towards academics. I barely scraped through.
We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.
I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work.
I think it's important that the English culture changes a little bit and we do start to go abroad and step out of our comfort zone.
When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.
I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.
I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
Once I went overseas and had this real motivation to get back, I was willing to do whatever it took to stick in this league, and that's what I did.
Me being so comfortable being abroad is due to the fact I've always been away from home.
I'm besotted by [Kirsten Dunst] now. I think she's just wonderful. I can't think for a second that however much she'd worked in America, she would never have had the chance to play [a role in Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia' ] like that. You have to get outside of the States to do something like that.
I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
