Andrew Lau Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Andrew Lau:
Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.
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I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.
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After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.
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With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
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Media Asia has great partners in China, Japan and Hollywood.
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When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.
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I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.'
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After 'Chen Zhen,' I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.
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There are lots of good producers out there.
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You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.
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When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
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In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.
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In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.
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We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.
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I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'
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Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.
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Beijing is my favorite city in China.
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I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.
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I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.
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I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.
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My visuals are typically very powerful. The rhythm is fast. The cuts are fast.
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So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'
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In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.
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I don't care about the critics.
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You need to make certain decisions to expand your market.
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When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.
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Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.
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