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"Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe."

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."

"The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now."

"It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence."
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"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."

"Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself."

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

"The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time."

"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."

"When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore."

"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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