There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.