Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

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

Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.