My Hometown Was One Of

Sometimes Films Ignore Other Points Of View Because It's Simpler To Tell The Story That Way, But The More Genuine And Sympathetic You Are To Different Points Of View And Situations, The More Real The Story Is.

When I Grew Up, In Taiwan, The Korean War Was Seen As A Good War, Where America Protected Asia. It Was Sort Of An Extension Of World War Ii. And It Was, Of Course, The Peak Of The Cold War. People In Taiwan Were Generally Proamerican. The Korean War Made Japan. And Then The Vietnam War Made Taiwan. There Is Some Truth To That.

If The Movie Is Quiet I Generally Feel The Audience Is Busy. That's When They're Working.

When Something Possesses Me, I Go Ahead And Do It.

If It Was A Choice Between Making Movies And Doing Nothing, He'd Probably Still Wish Me To Make Movies, So He Made Me Keep Going.