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

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

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

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

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

Every movie is unknown.