Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
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.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.