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

I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

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

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.