"You become the movie you are making."
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"I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?""
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"I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen."
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"In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes."
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"I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing."
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"I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say."
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"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them."
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"I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance."
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"I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie."
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"Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western."
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"My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him."
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"I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about."
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"I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero."
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"I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening."
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"What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions."
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"I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them."
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"Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games."
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"I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country."
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"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."
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"Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that."
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