When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.

In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.

For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.