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Ziyi Zhang

"I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult."

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"I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult."

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Akshay Vasu

"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."

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Akshay Vasu

"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."

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Akshay Vasu

"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."

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Akshay Vasu

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Akshay Vasu

"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."

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Akshay Vasu

"Looper is another great film."

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Akshay Vasu

"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."

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Akshay Vasu

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Akshay Vasu

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."

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Akshay Vasu

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."

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Ziyi Zhang
"I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult."

Film

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Ziyi Zhang
"In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin."

Time

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Ziyi Zhang
"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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Ziyi Zhang
"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."

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Ziyi Zhang
"It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group."

Dance

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Ziyi Zhang
"China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S."

Time

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Ziyi Zhang
"My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer."

Dance

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Ziyi Zhang
"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."

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