A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.
I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff. ' I want all the action to look realistic.
I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.
Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.
The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.
When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.