Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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.
Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.
In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.
I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.
Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.