Yimou's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm not enthused by these rap dudes.
All in they videos, posin' half nude, with all of them tattoos,
Til I blacken they eyes and have them lookin' like raccoons.

Trife Diesel

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Jet Li

#6. People were like Russian nesting dolls - versions stacked inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight.

Megan Miranda

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#9. I must stick with Chinese language films.

Zhang Yimou

#10. 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

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#14. Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends ... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

Jane Yolen

#15. Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Mabel Katz

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#19. The whole point is to discipline the mind.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Zhang Yimou

#21. Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#24. Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

Iris Apfel

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

Zhang Yimou

#26. 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

#27. To survive is to win.

Zhang Yimou

#28. 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

#29. I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Baha'u'llah

#30. 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

#31. Chennai is a great city, and if they had great weather it could be paradise, but it is not. Everything is top volume,be it heat, humidity, or crowd's ability to whistle. It is not a place for faint hearted

Yuvraj Singh

#32. It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of free will is not that you have free will but that your will can eventually make you free, that will can liberate you, that will can release you from slavery.

Torkom Saraydarian

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

Zhang Yimou

#34. At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#35. Celeste looked like she was ready to break something. I sat there. I kept telling myself that

Kiera Cass

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

Zhang Yimou