I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them..

First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to de….

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings..

My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born an….

Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some ….

So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water ….

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi..

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act..

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person..

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western..