Maiwenn has been in the spotlight in her native France since she was a child. She began acting in films like "Next Year If All Goes Well" and "One Deadly Summer," and she was even more famous as the teenage girlfriend of director Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element"), giving birth to his daughter at age 16. But by 21, she broke up with Besson and resumed life as an actress, including a role in the horror film "High Tension."Yet Maiwenn, now 36, says she feels like she started her career only a decade ago, when she debuted her one-woman stage show "Le pois chiche" in Paris. She went on to write, direct, and star in the short film "I'm an Actress" in 2004, followed by her 2006 feature film "Pardon Me" and "All About Actresses" in 2008."My real passion is to make movies, to direct," she says. "It's good for...