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

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.

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 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 U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.