It's been five years since the last time I stood here. But in my mind, I've never left the independent spirit.

I'm more at ease this time.

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.