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"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
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"Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory."

"I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories."

"Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!"

"Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice."

"This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own."

"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes."
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