To survive is to win.

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.

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Common sense often makes good law.

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.

If you feel neglected or ignored in the beginning dont expect a miracle as time goes on and he gets more use to you its only going to get worse wake up move on and find someone who makes you feel you are truly wanted if you have to wonder about it

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

A million people can tell the bride that she is beautiful but the only time she will listen is when its said by the man she loves.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

The secret to success in business is synergy.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.