On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

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

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

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.