That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.

For me, the director is the most important thing. He is steering the boat. If you don't trust him, you won't be able to give him your all.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

Because when you finally find the one against all odds, you give him your best and let the magic of the world carry the rest.

What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell .

Any time you can gain clarity and higher meaning, you allow more inner peace and more prosperity.

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.