88 Quotes by Wong Kar-Wai

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.

I always think to shoot action scenes is not really about the stunts. It's more about an expression and about imagination.

In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.

I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.