1. Dreams must be rooted in reality.

2. The foundation of film art lies in editing.

3. I leave my footprints for future generations to follow.

4. Dreams begin with scripts and end with movies.

5. If China will do well, so will domestic films.

6. What I do think is beautiful will definitely not last long.

7. Don’t wink at me, acting is not that complicated.

8. A movie is a play, it cannot be made into an accidental event.

9. When fantasy turns to love, intuition does not always follow.

10. It’s not that I’m afraid of death, it’s just that when death is imminent, I don’t want to be there.

11. It must not explode. If it does not explode, the audience will always be uneasy.

12. The movie begins with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami (Abbas).

13. Every time a character is played, the actor must live in the character.

14. The whole of life, the whole of its actions, is a natural and vivid movie.

15. There is a kind of movie that requires a long time of accumulation, and there is a kind of movie that requires lightning-quick inspiration.

16. Stupidity is infinitely more charming and profound than wisdom. Wisdom has limits, stupidity has none.

17. My films are never meant to be realistic. They are mirrors, fragments of reality, almost like dreams.

18. Hollywood is dominated by fear and lust for money. But that does not rule me, because I am fearless and not greedy for money.

19. To better understand the tendency of a film, it is best to first understand how the film expresses its tendency.

20. We don’t reveal our true inner thoughts everywhere, we only reveal what we want others to believe is true.

21. I am like a radar. I receive things and then reflect them back like a mirror, mixed with memories, dreams and ideas.

22. I am not interested in the development of the plot or the connection of events. I think that each of my movies does not need a plot.

23. I am old now. The older you get, the deeper you think. I can no longer grasp things on the surface of the water. I think underwater.

24. My life experience tells me that abnormal class relations and relationships between people without sympathy are the reality.

25. The true meaning of acting is to treat life as an experiment and explore the strangeness, joys and sorrows of life from scene to scene.

26. No matter what theme I use, it is actually about religious themes. Except their salvation happened on the street, not in the church.

27. When I tell a story very personally, the story resonates with more people than if I try to tell it in one-size-fits-all language.

28. If movies can be used to describe the suffering of the people, it can at least promote self-policing in society and let society think about how it should improve itself.

29. We can never predict the outcome of a movie. Every film has a narrow door, and we can only use our own judgment to decide whether we should step through it.

30. One of the phenomena when people grow old is that childhood memories will emerge more and more clearly, while various major events in their prime of life will become blurred or even disappear.

31. I am an independent production director! People always say that my movies look like Hollywood movies, or are just Hollywood movies. But if Hollywood wants to copy me, what can I do?

32. Putting a person in an ever-changing environment, letting him pass by countless people far or near, and letting him have a relationship with the entire world: this is the meaning of movies .

33. Cinematically written films are expressed through the relationship between images and sounds, rather than through the imitation of movements and tones (of actors or non-actors). It does not analyze or explain. It reorganizes.

34. Whether you are a hero or a gangster, remember to make your character humane, that is, try to give him some opposite qualities without affecting his main identity in the story.

35. When an image comes into contact with other images, it must be transformed, just like when one color comes into contact with other colors. Blue placed next to green, yellow, or red is not the same blue. There is no art without transformation.

36. Actors are also human beings, no different from others. A writer, painter, or musician can hide in a corner and lick his wounds clean, but an actor must endure the pain in public.

37. A screenwriter and director is not just a person who just puts a story on film and is done with it, but he should at least be a writer, a writer with a unique style and correct understanding that is owned by the public.

38. I have been synchronously recording the process of national evolution. I live in an era of change. This change requires a director to be very sensitive and synchronous in his judgment. I believe my work will become an iconic group of buildings in China.

39. The best movies are made for the deaf and mute.

Human beings are chattering and talking so much that they are almost drowning in it. Only by watching ballet can we discover pure beauty and pure gesture, and this is what my film strives to express.

40. When true and false are mixed, the true highlights the false, but the false prevents us from believing in the true. If an actor, on the deck of a real ship being beaten by real wind and rain, pretends to be afraid of a shipwreck, we will believe neither the actor nor the ship and the storm.

41. I have repeatedly said that as a filmmaker, if I make a movie, the audience should see 100 of their own movies from this movie. The audience can see his own movie, and that's what I strive to do.

42. It is difficult to find the exact words to comment on Kiarostami (Abbas)'s film. You only need to watch it to understand how amazing he is. I was devastated when Rey died. Later, I saw the film of Kiarostami, and I thought that God sent this person to replace Rey. Thank God.

43. I prefer movies that make the audience fall asleep in the theater. I think such movies are considerate enough to allow you to take a good nap, and you will not be troubled when you leave the theater. There have been movies that made me fall asleep in the theater, but the same movie kept me awake all night, thinking about it until dawn, even for weeks. This is my favorite movie.