"'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."

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

John Woo

#Lasts Quotes #West Quotes #Hong Kong Quotes

“We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.”
“I can't just watch a horror movie and leave it at that. The scary parts just stick with me. It kind of infiltrates my brain and sometimes I can't sleep at night, so usually I don't go and voluntarily watch one.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.”
“Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis
“The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.”
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.”
“I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.”
“Let's just say I believe in healthy love.”

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