Lee explained that while he particularly wants to make Chinese films, Chinese stories take a lot of work to shape and develop, so he can only get one done every few years. English films, however, come to him ready-to-go in an almost never-ending stream, to the point where he could never do them all.
李安明白表示，他最想拍的永遠是華語電影，但華語故事題材必須要自己開發、動腦筋想，幾年都寫不出一個好劇本；而國外題材卻是源源不斷，讓他接不完。