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
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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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'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.
joke kung sort
It would be a joke to film it like some sort of kung fu epic,
holidays spending
He will be spending the holidays with the troops.
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I usually put the actors and the stuntmen in a real explosion, in real gunfire. They run scared, really scared,
kid kinds people work
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.
afford church family help kid money poor school send
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.
afford dreamed family high poor
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.
football years people
I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.
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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.
young wanted
When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.
heart passion people
The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.
evil messages violence
I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.
team ideas two
When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.