Stephen Chow quotes:

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

I like working as a director most.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

I think my English is bad.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

There's no common taste in this world.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.