Yimou Quotes & Sayings

The day you are born is the day you start dying — Soroosh Shahrivar

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

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had. — Francis Collins

Dustin Runnels came up to me and asked me if I made my peace with God today. I don't know if I ever had a fight with him. — Jerry Lawler

I must stick with Chinese language films. — Zhang Yimou

Time has changed and now is the age of spending. — Zhang Yimou

People in misery is what most important in art. — Zhang Yimou

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. — Zhang Yimou

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time ... turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation. — David Toop

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. — Zhang Ziyi

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything. — Joseph Brodsky

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! — Zhang Yimou

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. — Dave Matthews

I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know ... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become. — Jet Li

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good. — Zhang Yimou

A number of Chinese filmmakers, including Chen Kaige and Li Shaohong, imitated Zhang's visual style in the early 1990s by multiplying various erotic images of the oriental Other for global consumption. Consequently, these films, usually sponsored by multinational corporations and catering to the tastes of global audiences, can be perceived as following the same model -- the Zhang Yimou model. To a great degree, this model also marks the end of formal experiment for the Fifth Generation directors because they must adopt a much more conventional way of filmmaking in order to meed the demand of the global market. — Tonglin Lu

To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers. — Barbara W. Tuchman

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism. — Zhang Yimou

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

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

To survive is to win. — Zhang Yimou

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope. — Jet Li

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

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. — David Novak

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind. — Zhang Yimou

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun. — Jet Li

You must know what you are capable of. — Zhang Yimou

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. — Zhang Yimou

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not. — Mark Lanegan

But I think we need the international market. — Zhang Yimou

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English. — Zhang Yimou

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. — Zhang Yimou

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China. — Jet Li

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

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market. — Zhang Yimou