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“Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.”

People Film Fighting Hours Audience Terrible Jokes Old People Promotion Hong Kong American Family Rush Hour

Author:Jackie Chan

“Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.”

Asia Supermarkets Hong Kong

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Source: Notes

“'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.”

Hard Lasts Film Audience Moved West Accepted Hong Kong

Author:John Woo

“My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.”

Heart Whole Careers My Heart International Recognition Cinema Tied Asia Asian Hong Kong Movie Business

Author:Michelle Yeoh

“My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.”

Ifs Men Firsts Two Together Stuff Break Shots England Western China Going Out Soap Hong Kong Daytime

Author:Scott Adkins

“When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.”

Knows Looks Ends Reason Dream Loses Wake Up Track Shooting Hotel Staying Where You Are Singapore Hong Kong

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.”

Thinking I Can Book Different One Day Coffee My Time Shops Hong Kong Coffee Shop

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.”

Knows Children Bigs Together Mother Adults Cousin Hong Kong Only Child Big Families Shanghai

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.”

Kind Vision Offers Comfortable West East Asia Hong Kong

Author:Chris Patten

“I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.”

Should Fighting Forget Accepting Comedy Lucky Hollywood Hong Kong So Lucky

Author:Jackie Chan

“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?”

Years Games Capacity Years Ago Balls Innovation Extraordinary Reputation Instance Remarkable Manipulation Survived Cricket Conservatism Hong Kong Subjection Durban

Author:Gideon Haigh

“CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.”

Character Bigs Seems Action Force Stars Adventure Fats Gravity Nevertheless Epic Tigers Visionaries Hong Kong

Author:Roger Ebert

“We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.”

Firsts Purpose Lost Term Situation Civilization Sitting Deeper Hotel Airports Short Term Alaska Atheistic Hong Kong Deeper Meaning

Author:Vaclav Havel

“In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.”

Men Ideas Directors Hong Kong

Author:Andrew Lau

“Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!”

People Two Culture Cities Inspired Hong Kong Macau

Author:David Beckham

“People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.”

People Reason Fashionable Energetic Hong Kong Stylish

Author:David Beckham

“Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.”

Ifs Way Path Sticks China Optimistic Chinese Agreement Hong Kong

Author:Milton Friedman

“Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.”

Art Different Home Opportunity Cities Pieces Nice Streets Scene Architecture Playgrounds Great Opportunity Hong Kong

Author:Invader

“Each piece that I put in the street is unique. I never make the same piece twice. For Hong Kong, like for every city where I have worked, I try to adapt my work to the culture and the 'colors' of the city.”

Trying Culture Cities Pieces Streets Color Unique Hong Kong

Author:Invader

“I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.”

Years Able Three Asks Opportunity Crazy Months Thirteen Three Months Hong Kong Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Dakota Fanning

“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.”

People Way Firsts War Home Wanted Film Turns Parent Cities Generations Modern Shadow Islands Hong Kong

Author:Mabel Cheung

“In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.”

Knows Way Made Film Community Differences Audience Know How International Communicate Chinese Propaganda Cinema Hong Kong

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges.”

Sound Share Roots Buddhist Instruction Hong Kong Taiwan

Author:Jia Qinglin

“Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.”

Source: The Nature of Generosity

“I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.”

Book States Play Enjoy Fiction Green Comic Comic Book Superhero Arrows Hong Kong

Author:Celina Jade

“Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.”

Different Whole Stuff Brother Horror Boundaries Setting Settings Artistic Pushing Trends Sensibility Asian Hong Kong Pushing Boundaries

Author:Kristen Stewart

“The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.”

Reason Earth Cities Chinese Toronto Hong Kong

Author:Joel Garreau

“You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.”

Hands Chinese Hong Kong Chinks

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied.”

Littles Hands Government Progress Standards India Standards Of Living Hong Kong

Author:John Templeton

“Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.”

“The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!”

Said Today Dinner Flu Mayors Hong Kong

Author:Red Buttons

“There's a McDonalds in Hong Kong & they're offering couples the opportunity to get married. You can have a McWedding.”

Opportunity Couple Married Offering Mcdonalds Hong Kong

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.”

States Running Guy President United United States Mets Gains Bills Clinton China Former Chinese Communist Contrast Popularity Ruthless Other Guys Wednesday Hong Kong

Author:Argus Hamilton

“I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way to achieve the authentic Hong Kong martial arts we need a full-time fight team unit working concurrently, and we're hiring a Chinese fight team from Hong Kong. And they were like, "Great, let's go."”

Way Want Needs Giving Mean Art Fighting Team Achieve Series Chinese Martial Arts Units Hiring Hong Kong

Author:Alfred Gough

“Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.”

Hong Kong

Author:Jess Row

“Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving.”

People Has Beens Government Culture Memories Committed Resistance Squares Heritage Hong Kong Safeguarding Authoritarian Government Tiananmen Square

Author:Jess Row

“I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.”

People World South Israel Canada Australia Ireland South Africa Site Spain Greece Indonesia Brazil Argentina Hong Kong

Author:Sophie Blackall

“I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.”

Said Remember Impossible Hollywood Missions Lots Of Money Remember When Hong Kong Mission Impossible

Author:William Mapother

“Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.”

Humans Democracy Rights Youth Financial Human Rights Teens Hong Kong Love Freedom Democracy And Human Rights

Author:Joshua Wong

“If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.”

Ifs Years Ends Fighting Greater Risk Danger Commit Declaration Joints Hong Kong

Author:Joshua Wong

“I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.”

Thinking Humans Has Beens Past Faces Political Rights Politician Lucky Human Rights Jail Activist Hong Kong Prosecution

Author:Joshua Wong

“The situation they [journalists and Edward Snowden] were in was incredibly heightened. The stakes were high. There was a lot of pressure, a lot of tension, a lot of sense of claustrophobic, clandestine energy that I think was exhilarating for us to explore and recreate. We were fortunate to shoot a fair amount of our stuff at the actual hotel where it all happened in Hong Kong. That added another element of very similitude to the situation, so I feel like it was exciting.”

Thinking Feels Energy Stuff Situation Happened Amount Elements Fairs Exciting Pressure Journalist Fortunate Tension Hotel Stakes Exhilarating Hong Kong Snowden Clandestine

Author:Zachary Quinto

“People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality.”

People Different Reality Film Seeing Versions Hong Kong

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.”

Thinking Want Film Realistic Portraits Hong Kong

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.”

Firsts One Day Shots First Time Finished Shooting Ran Hotel Staying Elevators Screening Hong Kong Laura

Author:Zachary Quinto

“I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.”

Needs Stills Able Cities Sitting University Flats Professors Visiting Campus Sitting Down Hong Kong Nomadic

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the line of sight. It's no longer an external conflict, like, oh, I have all these demands and I don't like them. The split is in the self. This may explain why, when I was in Santa Barbara before I went to Singapore and then now to Hong Kong, there was a writing moment when I was writing a poem a day. I had never done that before.”

Want Writing May Self Done Moments Hate Lines Demand Conflict Sight Distraction Splits Muse Santa Singapore Hong Kong Barbara Santa Barbara

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians."”

People Play Shows Left Waiting Party Goes On Chinese Agency Officials Sunday Committees Spy Traitor Hong Kong Cheerleader Snowden

Author:Edward Snowden

“US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.”

People Want Doe States Political Order Given Forget United United States Return Climate Russia Administration Want Me Traps Passports Hong Kong Departed

Author:Edward Snowden

“I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.”

World Real Reason Government Lawyer Around The World Hong Kong Pissed Off Good Lawyer

Author:Edward Snowden

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