Yimou Quotes

#1. I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know ... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.

Jet Li

#2. Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

Zhang Ziyi

#3. Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Jet Li

#4. Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

Jet Li

#5. Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

Jet Li

#6. While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'

Neil MacGregor

#7. I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

Zhang Yimou

#8. HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Zhang Yimou

#9. Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

Zhang Yimou

#10. Less talk, please! Let's just do.

Philip Oyok

#11. Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Zhang Yimou

#12. I must stick with Chinese language films.

Zhang Yimou

#13. 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

#14. I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.

Frederick Banting

#15. For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

Zhang Yimou

#16. Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.

Samuel Beckett

#17. To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

Zhang Yimou

#18. But I think we need the international market.

Zhang Yimou

#19. The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

Spencer Pratt

#20. Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

Zhang Yimou

#21. Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#22. Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

Zhang Yimou

#23. Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Zhang Yimou

#24. You must know what you are capable of.

Zhang Yimou

#25. People in misery is what most important in art.

Zhang Yimou

#26. It's just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.

Glenn Greenwald

#27. This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

Zhang Yimou

#28. To survive is to win.

Zhang Yimou

#29. All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Pierre De Coubertin

#30. 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

#31. The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Zhang Yimou

#32. You're not selling products. You're creating relationships.

Robert G. Allen

#33. I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Zhang Yimou

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"If I have learned one thing in my life, it is this - just go with it. If you relax, it doesn't hurt as much," Madonna ( she said as childhood pictures of Rocco were shown in the background.)

Madonna

#35. People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Zhang Yimou

#36. Government regulators are another name for police.

James Cook

#37. It's all generated, maybe, by the fact that the attitude of the populace is to try to find the answer instead of trying to find a man who has a way of getting at the answer.

Richard Feynman

#38. And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.

Anne Rice