Zhang Yimou quotes Born: 11/14/1951 Country: china

• Asian films are surging right now. TIFF, one of the biggest film festivals in Asia, will further vitalize Asian films and promote cultural exchanges between [Asian filmmakers and their counterparts] in other parts of the world. (Zhang Yimou) [right/film/willpower]
• Hong Kong should really work together … to make some genuine films, for example, some internationally popular action movies, (Zhang Yimou) [action]
• House of Flying Daggers. (Zhang Yimou)
• I‘m sure over time it will have a mutual effect or influence with the movie industry people in both countries. It is advisable for the movie industry of both countries to compare notes to compete even and to prosper, (Zhang Yimou) [time/willpower/influence/movie]
• Love that can be explained is not love. (Zhang Yimou) [love/love]
• My directing principle is to tone in with Tan Dun’s music. I’ll adopt a dichotomy to demonstrate his (the emperor’s) historic achievements and faults while probing into the loneliness as a king deep in his mind. (Zhang Yimou) [music/achievements/king/mind]
• My understanding of opera is like how foreigners look at Peking opera. Love it but have no deep understanding. (Zhang Yimou) [understanding/look/love/understanding]
• People here [in America] are interested in seeing more Chinese movies, (Zhang Yimou) [people/more]
• The Chinese government has a strong resolve and determination to crack down on pirating. This allows greater access to legitimate business rather than movies coming from a back door. (Zhang Yimou) [government/business]
• The Owl and the Pussycat. (Zhang Yimou)
• The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films, … But over time they found that the nature of all these films is kind of alike. They would like to see more variety of these American movies. (Zhang Yimou) [people/time/nature/more]
• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good. (Zhang Yimou)
• But I think we need the international market. (Zhang Yimou)
• For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English. (Zhang Yimou)
• HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism. (Zhang Yimou)
• I am a fan of wuxia. (Zhang Yimou)
• I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. (Zhang Yimou)
• I must stick with Chinese language films. (Zhang Yimou)
• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences. (Zhang Yimou)
• 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! (Zhang Yimou)
• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory. (Zhang Yimou)
• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. (Zhang Yimou)
• People in misery is what most important in art. (Zhang Yimou)
• Piracy has destroyed the domestic market. (Zhang Yimou)
• The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. (Zhang Yimou)
• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own. (Zhang Yimou)
• Time has changed and now is the age of spending. (Zhang Yimou)
• To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. (Zhang Yimou)
• To survive is to win. (Zhang Yimou)
• 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. (Zhang Yimou)
• Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind. (Zhang Yimou)

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