Chungking Express Quotes

#1. My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.

Christopher Doyle

#2. Crazy got nothin on us" Neesa

C.T. Todd

#3. I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)

Yenz Leonhardt

#4. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what's underneath.

Aldous Huxley

#5. The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#6. I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

Murray Walker

#7. I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

Maurice Ravel

#8. Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Francis Bacon

#9. I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.

Mel Gibson

#10. [In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

Travis Fimmel

#11. If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to eat a species that is only a supporting player.

Paula Poundstone

#12. My wife's the ugliest woman in the world - I'd sooner take her with me on tour, than kiss her goodbye.

Max Miller