"It's been a question mark for a long time. How can I make a film for both a Chinese audience and a western audience? Will they receive the film in the same way? I don't think I can do that. With the cultural difference between East and West, I cannot make everyone happy. But the only thing I knew that I could only follow my heart, to tell a story from my heart. That's the priority instead of being influenced by different temptation, like getting awards or commercial success."
"It is a country that has no past. Political regimes systematically robbed us of history and it's only now that we are beginning to get it back." [on China]
His film Da yue bing (1986) won awards in Montreal and Turin in 1987.
He lived in New York, USA, as a scholar at the end of the eighties.
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