You must know what you are capable of.

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.

The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

I can play in many sorts of categories because we've seen that with Led Zeppelin, all the acoustic stuff, and this, that and the other.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.

I'm pretty much going to say what I feel.

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.

What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday.

What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after five years, and it only had like 12,000 miles on it. My whole life was within eight square blocks of my house. There was a golf course across the street. In my downtime, I was on the driving range.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

I've never said I'm a communist.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.

When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

It's that heart of gold and stardust soul that makes you beautiful.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.