Hong Kong Quotes - Page 5

• Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

  Jet Li

  Culture, Quiet, Film

  "The World Is My Oyster". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2000.

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• In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, Team, Directors

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, People, Republic

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the Buddhist countries, not only Japan and Korea and China and Hong Kong and Thailand but also even Burma and Sri Lanka, had a higher level of education.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Buddhist, Strong

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

  John Woo

  Lasts, West, Film

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 15, 2007.

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• My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Careers, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.

  Scott Adkins

  Men, Two, Together

  "Scott Adkins, An Indisputable Action Star". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2012.

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• When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Track, Looks

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Coffee, Book, Thinking

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• My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Mother, Cousin, Children

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• I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Hollywood, Lucky

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

  Gideon Haigh

  Years, Games, Innovation

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• CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Character, Adventure

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• We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.

  Vaclav Havel

  Civilization, Alaska, Airports

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• Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, Guy, Chinese

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• I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way to achieve the authentic Hong Kong martial arts we need a full-time fight team unit working concurrently, and we're hiring a Chinese fight team from Hong Kong. And they were like, "Great, let's go."

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Team, Mean

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving.

  Jess Row

  Memories, Squares, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.

  Sophie Blackall

  Israel, Australia, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.

  William Mapother

  Hollywood, Impossible, Remember

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.

  Joshua Wong

  Fighting, Years, Risk

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.

  Joshua Wong

  Past, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The situation they [journalists and Edward Snowden] were in was incredibly heightened. The stakes were high. There was a lot of pressure, a lot of tension, a lot of sense of claustrophobic, clandestine energy that I think was exhilarating for us to explore and recreate. We were fortunate to shoot a fair amount of our stuff at the actual hotel where it all happened in Hong Kong. That added another element of very similitude to the situation, so I feel like it was exciting.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Stuff, Pressure

  Source: screenrant.com

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• US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.

  Edward Snowden

  Russia, Order, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Pissed Off

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification."

  Frank Abagnale

  Writing, Police, Houston

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 1989.

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