Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.
I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.
The task of the church, for example, becomes less that of indoctrinating or relating people to an external divine power and more that of providing opportunities for people to touch the infinite center of all things and to grow into all that they are destined to be.
I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.