From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

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.

There's no common taste in this world.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.