You have to travel abroad to find out how well-regarded Taiwan (art house) movies and directors are. But at home, nobody pays any attention.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

[It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

“Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place.”

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them