I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

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

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.