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“I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.”
“Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.”
“I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.”
“For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.”
“Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.”
“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.”
“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?'”
“A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.”
“I like to think I'm un-categorisable.”
“When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.”
“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.”
“I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.”
“When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.”
“I was very quiet, very shy and docile.”
“Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.”
“Every movie is unknown.”
“I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.”
“In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.”
“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.”
“You become the movie you are making.”