Zhang 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. Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

Michael Newdow

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#10. There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

E.L. Doctorow

#11. I must stick with Chinese language films.

Zhang Yimou

#12. The future of profit is purpose.

Simon Mainwaring

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#16. A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

Bonnie Raitt

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#19. One of the deadliest issues is the nuclear radiation pouring from every nuclear power station in the world. With every atomic process and experimentation that is going on, high-level nuclear radiation is pouring out at the highest level.

Benjamin Creme

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#23. If you believe it's life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

Martin Haberman

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

Zhang Yimou

#25. Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

David A. Bednar

#26. I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.

Harvey Pekar

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

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. To survive is to win.

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#31. I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Jamaica Kincaid

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

Zhang Yimou

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

Zhang Yimou

#34. Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Zhang Yimou