I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

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.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

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.

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

Broken.As I search for hope, In the same eyesI lost it.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.