Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

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.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

Those that reach their goals perish.

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good