I think the key to making a good film is to have a strong story and to be passionate about it.

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

作家是所有独裁的敌人，无论是左翼还是右翼。

因害怕文字狱而避开，著书只是为了谋生。