You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.