Filmmaker Chloe Zhao admits success comes with a cost: 'I've come to terms with it'

Chloe Zhao

Filmmaker Chloe Zhao has enjoyed huge success, helming movies like Nomadland (2020) and Eternals (2021), but she says that it has come at a cost. Speaking to Sir Sam Mendes at a screening of Hamnet in London, the filmmaker, 43, said, "It does cost something. Only now in my 40s, I've come to terms [with it].

Before, I would read as many self-help books as possible and go like, ‘I must fix this!' But alchemy costs things. You can't transform without letting something die."

Zhao feels it's difficult to balance a successful career with a happy family life. She said, "I used to think that you can have it all, that you could be summer all the time. I hate winter - things die and compost. But now I realise, you have to let something die. In the film [Hamnet] we tried to talk about [how] we live in a culture that didn't teach us how to let go of things."

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