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John Woo Quotes

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: chinese
Birth: May 1, 1946

Topics

Hard Hong Kong Audience West Film

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

New York Writing Museum New Study

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Jefferson Davis

Constitution Property Slave Southern

Every time I have a hit, I buy a Rolls.

Time Buy Hit Rolls Every Every Time

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

Busy Thought You Said Years Happen

Dickens belongs to the English people.

People English English People Dickens

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Children Colors Numbers Play Forget

I've always wanted to be a pop star of sorts because I love the whole touring gig.

Love Always Star Because Whole Pop

I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.

Television Down I Can Place Office

I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

Alicia Silverstone

People Uncomfortable Seeing Body

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Funny Way Something Only Make Vague

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don't agree with, like bombing.

Impact Want Out Carry Agree Only

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

Mariella Frostrup

Fear Truth Childhood Parent Back

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