Hong Kong Quotes

Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.

'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.

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.

Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.

You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.

People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.

Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.