For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.