I Wanted To Shoot Straight, Mainstream, Somehow

Sometimes Films Ignore Other Points Of View Because It's Simpler To Tell The Story That Way, But The More Genuine And Sympathetic You Are To Different Points Of View And Situations, The More Real The Story Is.

So Many Times You See Beautiful Lovemaking Scenes With A Lot Of Exposure Or An Awkward Lovemaking Scene, But I Think It's Very Rare That You See It Private.

I Just Did A Dramatic Love Story. Whether It's A Cultural Phenomenon Is Not For Me To Say.

My Father's Family Were Liquidated During The Cultural Revolution In China Because They Were Landowners. He Was The Only One To Escape. I Was Born And Brought Up In Taiwan. But You Absorb The Trauma. My Parents Had No Sense Of Security.

My First Instinct Was To Cast As Close To The Short Story As Possible, But Then I Realized That I Needed Actors Who Could Go For It And That They Had To Function Well As A Couple In A Love Story.