I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start. Daniel Wu Read Quote
I wanted to try every style available to me – large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can’t sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along. Daniel Wu Read Quote
I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year. Daniel Wu Read Quote
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don’t over-rehearse this stuff. Daniel Wu Read Quote
There’s a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like ‘Transformers’ making more money over there than here. Daniel Wu Read Quote
I went to Hong Kong in ’97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job. Daniel Wu Read Quote
For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype – ‘Sixteen Candles,’ the Long Duk Dong character. Daniel Wu Read Quote
Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren’t many people like me on the big screen. Daniel Wu Read Quote
In ‘The Matrix,’ you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It’s an amazing fight. But I know that they’ve rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen. Daniel Wu Read Quote
I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around. Daniel Wu Read Quote
