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

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

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

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