When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.