Hong Kong Cinema Quotes

When I was a kid, I loved Jackie Chan.

This is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.

I remember getting my mum to drive me to watch a Jackie Chan film when I was, like, eleven and trying to tell them I was fifteen.

'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.

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.

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

'Infernal Affairs' is really amazing and was a really popular movie. I would be fine with playing any character in the movie.

I'm a big John Woo fan.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

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.

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score.

It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.

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

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

The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.

From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.

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

Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.

Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.

Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.

Jackie Chan is the best storyteller on this planet.

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

Stephen Chow is one of my favorite filmmakers, and so groundbreaking.