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

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

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

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.