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Zhang Yimou
Chinese
Director
About the author
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,
Chinese
Director
#Man
#Control
#Choice
#Destiny
#Ocean
To survive is to win.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#People
#Art
#Deep
#Misery
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Time
#Now
#Age
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#First
#Trying
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Commercialism
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
You must know what you are capable of.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
People in misery is what most important in art.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#People
#Art
#Misery
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#English
For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Years
#English
HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Feeling
#Commercialism
I am a fan of wuxia.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Hope
#Old
#Mind
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Language
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Taste
#Audiences
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,
Chinese
Director
#Now
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Life
#People
#Leisure
#Objectives
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#Time
#People
#Will
#Deep
#Memory
Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
Zhang Yimou,
Chinese
Director
#World
#Fantasy
#Mind