In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Money for me today does not really matter.

I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had the action movie experience they were willing to be trained. Then I asked if they could swim, and each said yes, but she (gestures toward YX) is better. She said, I can also dive, in fact I once won a diving championship in an international competition. Then she said, "But big brother, I'm not very strong," and I said that's all right.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.