The art of filmmaking is about finding the balance between control and spontaneity.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

无径之林，常有情趣

当富贵利达的人夸说他得到上帝的恩惠时，上帝却羞了。

抱最好的希望，做最坏的打算。

轧棉机的发明是需求和观察的结果。

我喜欢慢慢来，一步一步来。我不想在生活中急于求成。