[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

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

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.