“I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.”
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.