The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

When I write songs, I often cry.

我们知道得越多，理解得越少。

I always aim to create films that are both entertaining and thought-provoking.

我不需要任何人的激励。我自己激励自己。