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

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always operated, whether it's a historical fact or a scientific fact, and then you actually have to connect it in your brain.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.