The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

Charitable donations from disaster relief efforts enabled the family to relocate; however violent crime had by then become commonplace in Hong Kong housing projects. Woo next direct John Travolta and Christian Slater in Broken Arrow. His Hollywood films include Hard Target Broken Arrow Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2.

His Hollywood films include Hard Target Broken Arrow Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2. Woo cites his three favorite films as David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.