If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.

I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.

If you don't have a deal, you wind up losing money.

The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have global talents to create a global picture.

Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.

I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.

I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.