There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

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.

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

'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.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

Come my, heart, up and away!

Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

Stop crying; stand up and look around you; there is always a way out in life!

Right now if you ask me Carmelo Anthony is GONE. He's going to L.A. to play w/Kobe Bryant.