John Woo
John Woo
John Woo SBSis a Chinese-born Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer. He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and frequent use of slow motion. Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled, and Red Cliff...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 May 1946
CountryChina
football years people
I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.
simple years office
It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.
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It would be a joke to film it like some sort of kung fu epic,
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I usually put the actors and the stuntmen in a real explosion, in real gunfire. They run scared, really scared,
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To be honest, I don't have much time to watch any movies.
I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.
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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.
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I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.
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When I was 11, even though we were poor, my mother was a fan of movies from the west. She used to bring me to the theatre. At that time, a parent could bring a child to the theatre for free. I was fascinated by the musicals, I think they influenced me the most. Also a lot of Fred Astaire... I loved movies and I wanted to be a filmmaker some day.
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When I was in high school, I dreamed of being a film-maker, but my family was so poor that they couldn't afford for me to go to college.
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When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.
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When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.
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They think it's cleaner (and) OK because (it) comes from the doctor or it's prescribed, but it's abused.
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He will be spending the holidays with the troops.