Wong Kar Wai Film Quotes

#1. If you don't like peas,it is probably because you have not had them fresh.It is the difference between reading a great book and reading the summary on the back

Lemony Snicket

#2. I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

Wong Kar-Wai

#3. I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Shannen Doherty

#4. My son always says I like very weird music.

Cornelia Funke

#5. I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'

Wong Kar-Wai

#6. One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

Moby

#7. I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

Wong Kar-Wai

#8. You must learn early in life to endure what comes your way. We, as women, have no other choice.

Diana Wallis Taylor

#9. There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

Laurence Gartel

#10. I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

Pee Wee Reese

#11. Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

Wong Kar-Wai

#13. Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Aleksandar Hemon

#14. 'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

Wong Kar-Wai

#15. We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. Who betrays whom first.

Susan Dennard

#17. Change is a difficult challenge to face.

Lanny Bassham

#18. All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

Assata Shakur

#19. First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.

David Brooks

#20. In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing things during shooting. Because I worked as a scriptwriter for 10 years, I understood that directors always wanted to change what was originally written, to improve on it.

Wong Kar-Wai

#21. There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

Orlando Bloom

#22. 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.

Wong Kar-Wai