A Movie Is Really Provocation. It's Not

I Feel Like All Of My Characters Now Take This Congested Situation, They Clash, And From There You Purge Yourself.

For A Filmmaker, It's A Rare Chance To Do A Personal Film On A Big Canvas.

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.

So I'm A One Movie At A Time Person, I Don't Develop. Normally We Do A Movie Then One Thing Leads To Another. If Something Pops Up That Catches My Attention, Then I'll Decide.

Making This Movie As A Period Piece About A Period That Was Very Recent In People's Minds. I Was In Taiwan [during The 1970s], So I Hope I Did All Right. Otherwise, It Could Be The Biggest Embarrassment Of My Life. Also, The Story Is Not Linear, It's Patchy, Like A Cubist Painting, And There Is Always The Possibility It Will Not Hold Together, It Will Fall Apart. The Tone Is Part Satire, Part Serious Drama, Part Tragedy, All Mixed Together, And It Has To Hit An Emotional Core. That's Also Very Scary.