I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.