3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
Americans are hidden dragons to me.
As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
Every movie is unknown.
Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.
I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
I'm still a novice student.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
I don't have a superpower.
You become the movie you are making.
I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.
When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.
Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
