Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

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

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.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

A lot of people will think I changed the book: ‘so you’re the tiger instead, you’re the tiger who ate the cook.’ That’d be totally expository, like in the book, ‘you’re the tiger’ and then it stops there. That seems to have the magic touch. I bring everything together. That’s why he made up the story, the whole thing becomes internalized. That might be the magic, but all I did is not so much interpreted, but try my best to keep everybody still staying in the movie. And I was like, ‘God, it’s so hard to do.’ I make movies for a long time. It doesn't get easier.