Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become crim….

If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away..

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

So China's president [Hu Jintao] meets, uh - meets America's president. It's like President "Who?" meeting President "Huh?".

I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China..

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive..

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States..

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of w….

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar….

China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with Afr….

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people..

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China..

Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to the supermarket to buy..

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%..

We're not polishing fine china here..

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that..