I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

I want people to see their own power.

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.