English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.