Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done..

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art..

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures..

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to differen….

Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that..

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside i….

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….

With 3D you're right there immersed in the world..

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country..

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases..

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut..

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….

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the ….

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you..

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 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….

I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be e….

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am..

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourse….

There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will t….

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation..