The most important tool an artist has is curiosity.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
江河的水之所以浩浩荡荡,并非只由一个源头流出来;无比珍贵的皮衣,并非只由一只狐狸腋下的毛皮所能制成。
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
The seabbard is content to be dull when it protects the keenness of the word.