Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

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.

There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.

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