I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.