Every movie is unknown.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

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

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 sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

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