John Woo Movie Quotes

#1. So." He looked at her expectantly. "Shall we go?" Emma blinked. "Now?" "Did you not say you would like to see inside?" "Well . . . yes. If you are certain it is safe." "Perfectly safe." He extracted his pocket watch and glanced at it. "That is, for the next four hours.

Julie Klassen

#2. The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

D. James Kennedy

#3. For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on a producer system, it is difficult for a director to express himself using his own style of filmmaking.

Alan Mak

#4. It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future... undaunted by fear and lies.

Ted Naifeh

#5. He says everything like it happened to someone else.

Brent Runyon

#6. The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

Christian Slater

#7. When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.

John Woo

#8. I made a mock newscast with my friend Amy. We'd set up the camera, an old VHS camcorder, and I did the sports section and interviewed my brother who pretended to be Jay Buhner ... against his will, of course.

Charissa Thompson

#9. People change and forget to tell each other.

Lillian Hellman

#10. I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

John Woo

#11. Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

Dallas Roberts

#12. God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

William Shakespeare

#13. Well, what are we waiting for? ... She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.

Donita K. Paul

#14. The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

Jaggi Vasudev

#15. Love is one of the two things worth dying for. I have yet to decide on the second. It is most certainly not colorful fungus.

Melissa Jensen

#16. It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

John Woo

#17. Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

George MacDonald

#18. There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn't-eat.

Helene Cixous

#19. Criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear.

Annie Finch

#20. God created you to see what you would show Him.

Katy Tackes

#21. Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Gish Jen