Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

So when I do Chinese cooking I mix everything together then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it it shines clear.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

I look at American movies the big muscles and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Research is four things: brains with which to think eyes with which to see machines with which to measure and fourth money.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work they have the talent to put those men back to work.