I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I look at American movies the big muscles and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them but you can't really hate them.

The whole world loves American movies blue jeans jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

When we talk about how movies used to be made it was over 100 years of film literal physical film with emulsion that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

I live very normally I go out with my friends we go to the movies I queue we go to restaurants.

I go to the movies a lot and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like to find them offering no more surprises.

Sure 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene and I loved creating those but I never really had great stories to string them together.