I don't care about writing really.
You become the movie you are making.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.