"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."

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"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."

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"Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like."

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"Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world."

Internet, News, Rest, Today

"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."

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"Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep."

Police, School, Sleep

"After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films."

Work, English

"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."

Friendship, People, First

"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."

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"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."

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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

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"They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad."

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

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

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"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."

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"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."

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

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"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

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

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"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

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

Dario Argento, Italian Director

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