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“Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.”
“Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.”
“What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.”
“Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.”
“I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.”
“I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.”
“Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.”
“For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.”
“I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.”
“I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.”
“I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.”
“In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.”
“My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.”
“No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.”
“Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.”
“Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.”
“The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.”
“When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...”