When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.