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I must stick with Chinese language films.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

I can speak passable Mandarin. I will not be translating at the U.N. anytime soon.

For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'

I would love to do film in Spanish.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.