"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

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"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

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"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."

Acting, Actors, Careers, Risk

"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."

Love, Actors, First, Instinct

"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."

Movies, Hate, Past, Pretty

"I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light."

Destiny, Light, Name, Skill

"I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures."

Thought, Character, Film, First

"I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama."

Appreciation, American, Drama, Romantic, Space

"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."

Now, Writing

"On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy."

People, Democracy, Film, Questions

"When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me."

Character, Woman

"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."

Life, Money, Son

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"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."

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