I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The world is like a chessboard， whereon we may see a living knight， but we cannot see a living chess.

我试图创作与人类状况共鸣的电影。

When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.