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Film/TV title: Chungking Express
Character name: He Zhiwu, Cop 223
Quote(s): "We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears."

"We split up on April Fool's Day. So I decided to let the joke run for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1. May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. If May hasn't changed her mind by the time I've bought thirty cans, then our love will also expire."

"Somehow everything comes with an expiry date. Swordfish expires. Meat sauce expires. Even cling-film expires. Is there anything in the world which doesn't?"

"In May's eyes, I'm no different from a can of pineapple."

Film/TV title: In the Mood for Love
Character name: Chow Mo-wan
Quote(s): "Feelings can creep up just like that. I thought I was in control.""

Film/TV title: Happy Together
Character name: Lai Yiu-fai
Quote(s): "Turns out that lonely people are all the same."

Film/TV title: 2046
Character name: Chow Mo Wan
Quote(s): "Everyone who goes to 2046 has the same intention, they want to recapture lost memories. Because in 2046 nothing ever changes. But, nobody knows if that is true or not because no one has ever come back. "

"I once fell in love with someone. I couldn't stop wondering if she loved me back. I found an android which looked just like her. I hoped she would give me the answer."

"Love is all a matter of timing."

Film/TV title: Days of Being Wild
Character name: Yuddy
Quote(s): "I've heard that there's a kind of bird without legs that can only fly and fly, and sleep in the wind when it is tired. The bird only lands once in its life... that's when it dies."

"I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere. It was dead from the beginning."

Film/TV title: Ashes of Time
Character name: Blind Swordsman
Quote(s): "Do you know the difference between drinking wine and drinking water? The more wine you drink, the warmer you'll get. Water will only make you feel cold."

Film/TV title: Fallen Angels
Character name: He Zhiwu
Quote(s): "They say that love can change a man. I start to find myself looking better and more charming, and suddenly I discover that I'm turning blonde."

Film/TV title: As Tears Go By
Character name: Wah
Quote(s): "People like us don't have tomorrows."

Film/TV title: My Blueberry Nights
Character name: Jeremy
Quote(s): "There's nothing wrong with the Blueberry Pie, just people make other choices. You can't blame the Blueberry Pie, it's just... no one wants it."

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"Filming In the Mood for Love was the most difficult experience of my career. We began shooting two years ago, amid the Asian economic crisis. During the two years since then we have been through a lot: problems with censors, the departure of some members of my crew and the challenge of telling an intimate story about only two people. We are physically and financially exhausted."
"I'm always being asked when I will make the second part of Days of Being Wild, a film I remember with great affection. Over the years, I often asked myself the same question. Time moved on, but I kept looking for an answer."
"Osamu Dazai once wrote a short story entitled "A Handsome Devil with a Cigarette." I had always thought it was a great title for a film. I like Dazai a lot. Tony [Leung] reminds me of him."
"In the Mood for Love happily reunites me with Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung. In a sense, this film answers the question I've been asking myself for so long."

Quotes About Wong Kar-wai

Quote:"The way Wong sees beauty, or women related to beauty, it has to be that sensual, perfect thing."
Who said/wrote it: Maggie Cheung

Quote: "He's the bravest director and producer in the world."
Who said/wrote it: Christopher Doyle

Quote: "You need to make yourself very flexible with Kar-wai. You have to turn yourself inside out. I've worked with people on his films and they were very frightened, very nervous at first, and they came up and ask me what the heck was going on. And I always tell them with Kar-wai, you don't ask, you just feel. I think Kar- wai feels that if you know a character, you're no longer acting, and therefore it restricts your acting. He works in reverse to everyone else. That's why he takes so long and that's why we don't need to know. The actors develop purely through shooting."
Who said/wrote it: Tony Leung

Quote:"I worked with Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou one after the other and they both make great films, but in such a different way. Wong is so meticulous and Zhang has so much energy and force. They create characters but they're such characters themselves."
Who said/wrote it: Maggie Cheung

Quote: “We break the record every year for film used in a Hong Kong film, and yet he discards 95% of it. And I don’t care, because if the image doesn’t hit the screen, it’s still there. I had the visual, and the emotional, and the technical experience of having made that image, and I think that comes back on the screen.”
Who said/wrote it: Christopher Doyle

Quote: "I was hating Wong Kar-wai more and more every day. I thought, 'You're making everyone suffer, you're ruining my life.'" [on In the Mood for Love's long, 15-month shoot]
Who said/wrote it: Maggie Cheung

Quote: "Kar-wai is very demanding, and we never have a real script. But he challenges me. He is always pushing me to go deeper, to become that person. I like it."
Who said/wrote it: Tony Leung

Quote: "I remember the first take we did, my voice was really high, I was just terribly nervous, and Kar-wai came over and patted me on the back and I relaxed a little." [on My Blueberry Nights]
Who said/wrote it: Norah Jones

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