You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.