Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

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

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

There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.