Gordon Chan quotes

Most Chinese filmmakers grew up watching television; they watched films on television, not in cinemas. The scope of their vision is not big enough, they're not yet detail-oriented enough. You have to watch films in cinemas for years to understand the depth and scope of vision needed in filmmaking. Directors in China usually come from an academic background; they graduate as film directors. Whereas the directors from Hong Kong learn their trade on sets, beginning at the lowest rung.
-- Gordon Chan

#Chinese #Vision #Graduates

Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket prices are high. Otherwise they'd just stay home, buy DVDs or download movies. But if there were only big budget movies it would be impossible for the film industry to survive. So I emphasize the importance of mid-range films. But those films need the support of theatre owners. The theatre chains have to have the vision to realize the need to support smaller films for the growth of the domestic film industry.
-- Gordon Chan

#Home #Giving #Support

I think my function working in China is to bring my experience and what we've gone through in the Hong Kong industry to China. I hope there'll be more and more new Chinese companies with vision, that understand producing and film financing. My plan for the future is to work with as many new companies as possible, to pass on my experience as to what is commercial film.
-- Gordon Chan

#Thinking #Chinese #Vision

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

You don't need vision to be a visionary.

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.