People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality.

We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

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

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.

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