These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

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

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

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.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.