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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.
My cultural roots are something illusive.
My culture doesn't regard acting highly.
My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
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.
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
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.
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
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.
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