Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun..

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world..

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making..

Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What i….

So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned ar….

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female charac….

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critiq….

Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, whic….

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes..

Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, w….

Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all ri….

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3….

It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then ….

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say..

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement..

I don't care about writing really..

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li..

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about..

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it p….

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to g….

I think people are universal..