If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to practice your art. For the most part, yo…

- Jia Zhangke

If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost felt as though…

- Jia Zhangke

With all our new technologies, I feel like these feelings have really been dampened. Even if you are thousands of kilometers from somebody, you can s…

- Jia Zhangke

Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects in their f…

- Jia Zhangke

I think previously, when fathers and sons argued with each other, they would still face each other and face each other's feelings, but now, the relat…

- Jia Zhangke

There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

- Jia Zhangke

I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal…

- Jia Zhangke