"The more you know about a subject, the more you can bring to it as a filmmaker."

——记者：你认为你是美国人还是中国人呢？

People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

永远不要在电话中回应恳求或提议。迫切性是一种伪装。

1998年，贝索斯致股东信

"The reflection is more interesting than the thing itself."

The architect must be a craftsman.