I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.

You become the movie you are making.

I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.