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

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

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life..

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

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's ….

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes..

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill….

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things ….

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

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

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….

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things..

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working..

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie star….

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet..

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….

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

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….

At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual sta….

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lo….