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I'm not superstitious.
Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.
When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
You have to be proud of who you are.
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.
Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.
Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After I went to Japan, I had a totally different view. The Japanese are always talking about what the Western world is doing. There is the anxious feeling of an outsider.
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.
Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
I do believe every artwork has its own charisma. Sometimes it's different from what I expect. When a work is finished, it exudes its own charisma and lives its life independently.
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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