"I've always fantasized about the world of knights and beauties, a world that every Chinese believes in and dreams about at some point in their life," claims Ang Lee in his autobiographical A Decade of Cinematic Dreams.
「對武俠世界，我充滿了幻想，一心嚮往的是儒俠、美人的俠義世界，一個中國人曾經寄託情感及夢想的世界，」李安在口述自傳《十年一覺電影夢》中說。