A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well, that's what theater can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens.
You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.
One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.
The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.
Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.