The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

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.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.