Wong Kar-wai Quotes
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My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
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I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
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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. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.
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Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.
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Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.
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We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.
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We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.
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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.
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Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.
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What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.