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.

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

The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress