My cultural roots are something illusive.

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

When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's like an actor meets a role, and you slip into that body and see what happens, to experience certain conditions, to adopt a certain character. Even shooting is a study of the character. I think both the character and the actor, and eventually the filmmaker - myself - are finding a way to accept their environment and being accepted and feel comfortable of themselves.

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

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.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.