I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
John WooI have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.
John Woo'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.
John Woo