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

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.

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.

This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. There's no such thing as "fixed" culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

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

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.