It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.