A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.