There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

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.

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.

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

I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

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