我不是为了赚钱而拍电影的电影人。我拍电影是因为我有话要说。
I am not a filmmaker who makes films to make money. I make films because I have something to say.
The severe morals of the early Romans produced a race of men who were neither superstitiously devout nor philosophically skeptical.
真相是,我不知道自己为何写作。我只知道我必须写。
The greatest predictor of a novel's quality is the novelist's willingness to confront the unlovely truth about himself or herself.