A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

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

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.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.