Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.