In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.