We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.

- Wong Kar-Wai

Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need somethi…

- Wong Kar-Wai

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the a…

- Wong Kar-Wai

I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

- Wong Kar-Wai

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a polic…

- Wong Kar-Wai

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…

- Wong Kar-Wai

I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film i…

- Wong Kar-Wai

I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.

- Wong Kar-Wai

We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

- Wong Kar-Wai