This was supposed to be my homecoming project. I'm really taking to heart how this film is performing in America.

Don't watch the film with 'colored glasses' and it's a very touching love story.

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.