"I was directing both in English and Chinese and bouncing in between the two; it became a balancing act for me. In American films, because it was an adopted culture, the skill and artistic endeavor became clearer. And actually in some ways, psychologically it's easier. I see the subtext better. As a foreigner, accuracy is the first thing you'll see, but getting the cultural habits is more difficult. Then once I had directed in English and went back and started 'Crouching Tiger', I found my thinking had been Westernized, globalized a lot. So I had to find my way back into the Chinese culture, which was my first culture."