I try to be a partygoer. But at some point I don't know why I'm doing it and fall back. I've been using repression, the struggle between behaving as a social animal. You're seeking to be honest with your free will, less conflict. I think that's an important subject with me. That's who I am, how I was brought up. I think I use that a lot. I mistrust everything I think. Things you think you can trust, believe in, or hang on to, changes. That's the essence of life.

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

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.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.