Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.