In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

The people who control culture in China have no culture.