Andrew Lau Quotes

Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

I did a lot of hokey movies when I was starting out at MGM. Good and bad, mostly bad.

I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.

If I never did another film after 'Paris, Texas,' I'd be happy.

Maybe at 55, I would like to direct. I will go the Angelina Jolie way.

Of course being in movies is very exciting, and it's a wonderful thing for an actor to do.

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

I'd love to shoot some of these bigger movies as they come, and I'll go back to theater at some point again.

I think my dream career would be to own my own production company and be able to write movies and star in them every once in awhile. Kind of like a Judd Apatow type of guy. That would be really fun.

'Headhunters' was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood - a lot of heightened hero movies.