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.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.