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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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.
There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
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.
Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.
American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
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.
I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"