“Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.”

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

“When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.”

“I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.”

“Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.”

“When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.”

“The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.”

“All my good movies, nobody sees.”

“I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.”