The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
我喜欢艺术作为一种社会粘合剂的理念。
I'm a very lucky person. I get to make movies for a living, and I get to make the movies I want to make.