Wong Kar-wai Art Quotations

Im a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.