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"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!"

Now,

"I must stick with Chinese language films."

Language,

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

Hope, Mind, Old

"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."

Control, Choice, Destiny, Man

"Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory."

Time, People, Deep, Memory

"I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences."

Movies, Audiences, Taste

"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism."

Movies, Commercialism, Feeling

"For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English."

Movies, English, Years

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

Movies, Commercialism

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

Movies, First, Trying

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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

Movies, Mother

"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

Movies,

"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

Movies, Pity

"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."

Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director

Movies, Horror, Silence, Today

"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Movies, Work

"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Movies, Language

"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Movies, Americans, Paris

"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Movies, Mistake, Language, Literature

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

Michael Apted, British Director

Movies, Soul, Sense

"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

Movies,