My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

I always think to shoot action scenes is not really about the stunts. It's more about an expression and about imagination.