我试着把每一部电影都当作我拍的第一部电影来对待。

The only way to write well is to write badly first.

最重要的是对自己和观众诚实。

城市是由其居民写就的一本书。

To paint is to bear witness.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.