People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

I am a fan of wuxia.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

I must stick with Chinese language films.

To survive is to win.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

But I think we need the international market.

People in misery is what most important in art.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

You must know what you are capable of.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.