Chinese - Director | July 17, 1956 -
I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.
Wong Kar-wai
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Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.
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I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.
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My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.
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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.
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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.
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Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.
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I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.
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1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.
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'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.
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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.
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During shooting, you have the idea, like, of this certain dress on this actress, but it's not to fit, so you have to make all of these alterations and modifications. So in a way, I build the characters with the cast, and it's sort of custom-made, the whole process, and then you have to make all of these adjustments.
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