I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't ...
Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!
Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved t...
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.
Movie without romance feels like food without flavor.
I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
I've worked with Filipino technicians, and they are, I think, among the best. I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines, maybe for a vacation or to shoot a movie.
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
he loves that movie for about five minutes. Then he gets Hero's Remorse.
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
