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It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

I must stick with Chinese language films.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.