Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

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.

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.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.