Stephen Chow Quotations

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

I've learnt that sometimes you've got to be patient. But it's hard for me to judge why they did it.

Audiences always love kung fu. I think since Bruce Lee came to Hollywood he awoke the whole world to this cinema. For me, Bruce Lee will always be the real master.

As many people have pointed out, the scene in 'Kung Fu Hustle' where the Landlady was chasing after me resembled the Roadrunner, ... I loved to watch cartoons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

There will be a lot of new characters in the movie. We'll need a lot of new actors. It's possible that we'll look for people abroad besides casting locals,

Everyone in this World must eat. There are no borders when it comes to food. It's a subject that anyone can understand.

Not that it is a shortcut. I'd like to emphasize that CG is a tool; the main purpose of it is to assist, ... Take the kung fu movie as an example: Kung fu itself is imaginative, and CG can help us to visualize images at such a level to go beyond our physical boundary.

but I hope we'll do better in the future.

Hong Kong comic actor and director Stephen Chow said Tuesday he'll start filming the sequel to his action film

I like working as a director most.

As many peo­ple have pointed out, the scene in ‘Kung Fu Hus­tle’ where the Land­lady was chas­ing after me resem­bled the Road­run­ner, … I loved to watch car­toons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

I think my English is bad.

I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

There's no common taste in this world.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.