Andrew Lau

Director

Canada

1993 - Present

14 quotes

Showing 10 of 14 quotes

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.
Andrew Lau
After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.
Andrew Lau
I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.
Andrew Lau
Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.
Andrew Lau
When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.
Andrew Lau
With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
Andrew Lau
Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.
Andrew Lau
After 'Chen Zhen,' I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.
Andrew Lau
I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'
Andrew Lau
I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.
Andrew Lau