Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.