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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

"I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do."
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"Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me."

"I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act."

"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."

"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero."
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