Chinese film needs a brand-new generation of actors and actresses and more and more people will be needed to push Chinese films forward.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

I know to become a film star is not that easy. It takes performing skills, knowledge and insight, and indispensably good luck.

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

grave provocation to the Chinese people.

It was very hot and dry, but we were fed well. We ate right alongside the actors and actresses. They paid us a little bit, but I would have done it for free, just for the experience.