The metropolis exacts from man as a discriminating creature a different amount of consciousness than does rural life.

【译文】 孔子说：“早上理解真理，晚上死也值得。”

我相信每部电影都应该有独特的声音和视角。

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

 我既是旁观者清亦是当局者迷。

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.