First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.
I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
The movie business is a big gamble.
It only hurts when I'm not laughing.
I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1. 8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U. S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.
If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
. . . to continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists.
Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No. " A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.