When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

Every movie is unknown.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.