As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

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.

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

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.