I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

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

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

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.

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