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

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

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

So it [3D] is something I'm still learning, it's fresh, so if the budget allows I'll do it again and just see how far it goes because it's the frontier, it's more interesting. It's still expensive, the projection system can be annoying sometimes, it's not really regulated or perfected yet, so it's still expensive. If I do a lower budget I'll just do 2D, but if the budget allows I think I'll try 3D.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.