The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter.

When you love someone, you’re capable of more than you know.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view.

I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.