"There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast."
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"I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to."
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"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 is Chinese - which means my friends."
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"I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave."
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"I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances."
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"Americans are hidden dragons to me."
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"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 lot of Americans."
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"When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write..."
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"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 yourself."
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"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 private."
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"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, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light."
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"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 statement."
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"When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore."
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"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 symbolic meaning of the sword."
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"I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person."
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"I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making."
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"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."
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"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 attention, then I'll decide."
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"As artists, we like night more than day sometimes."
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"On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy."
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