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….

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member..

So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my at….

I don't care about writing really..

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

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games..

Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started t….

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him..

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of t….

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing..

I think people are universal..

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….

Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence..

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….

When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religio….

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had….

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

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop ….

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing..

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….

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..