Daily Inspiration Quote by Anthony Anderson

Anthony Anderson is doing the kind of show-business diplomacy that sounds humble while quietly making a sales pitch. He name-checks the Hong Kong original, praises it without qualification, then sets a deliberately modest bar: if the remake comes anywhere close, it will be a "hot property". That phrasing is doing double duty. It frames success as almost inevitable (the source material is that strong) while also insulating the new production from the usual remake backlash: dont blame us if its different; blame the impossible standard.

The quote also carries a snapshot of early-2000s cultural traffic patterns, when Hollywood increasingly treated Asian cinema as a prestige quarry. By calling the original a "great piece" and foregrounding its Hong Kong identity, Anderson positions himself and the project as culturally literate, not just opportunistic. Its less "we stole a good plot" and more "we're curating something already proven". The admiration becomes a kind of ethical alibi.

There is subtext in the small inaccuracies too: he calls it "Inferno Affairs" rather than Infernal Affairs, a slip that feels revealing rather than damning. It suggests the posture of respect can be partly performative, a quick marker of credibility in press circuits where the right references signal taste. Still, the core intent lands: reassure fans of the original, hype the remake's potential, and borrow some of the original's artistic authority before the new version has earned any of its own.