At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

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