John Woo Quotes

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was that we had Philip Kwok - he choreographed John Woo's 'Hard Boiled,' and in the '70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.

'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.

I doubt I will ever be in another Michael Bay movie.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.

I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.