There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.