Wong Kar-wai

“I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film li...”

“What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking.”

“To me, romantic means, um, you follow your heart more than your mind. Sometimes when you're shooting a film, you have to follow your heart.”

“I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.”

“I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.”

“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.”

“Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we ad...”

“In most kung fu films, they want to create a hero who's always fighting a bad guy. In the story of Ip Man, he's not fighting physical opponents. He's fighting the ups and downs of his life.”

“The industry and support in China has really matured because there are so many productions there. At the same time, there's been a lot of changes in the market, which I think also has enable...”

“It used to be when you eat, you eat with people. But instant noodles are so instant that people eat by themselves. And it's a very convenient way of eating but also a very lonely way of eati...”

“It is always good to work with a very regular group of people because we know how high we can fly and what are the parameters, and it becomes very enjoyable.”

“When it's time to let go, I don't look back, and I start another project as soon as possible. One thing I remind myself is that I don't want to Photoshop my past.”

“I don't do rehearsal. Some directors prefer to do rehearsal - readings before the actual shooting - but I don't like this process because I think there are certain things that are so spontan...”

“I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.”

“Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that...”

“Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, o...”