Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.
Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.
Don't die with your music (storiestalents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
The birthright of man. . . is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.