Donnie Yen Quotes

There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

Donnie Yen

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• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

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• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

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• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

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• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

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• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

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• 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

  

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• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

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• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

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• There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Thinking
  • Cool
  • Connection