Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.

I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.