Wong Kar-wai Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.”

“Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.”

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

“'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.”

“Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.”

“I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else.”

“My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.”

“I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.”

“I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.”