I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's like an actor meets a role, and you slip into that body and see what happens, to experience certain conditions, to adopt a certain character. Even shooting is a study of the character. I think both the character and the actor, and eventually the filmmaker - myself - are finding a way to accept their environment and being accepted and feel comfortable of themselves.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

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