If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.
Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L. A. , and write.
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I'm concerned. It's the only job where you don't have to wait for someone to tell you what to do. You just sit down and make s**t up.
Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.
Ideas are not important in China – execution is
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.
I did live over in the U. K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.