The World Motivation
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
“When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
— Gao Xingjian · Alive
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
A writer has to fully defend his rights and his own worth.
Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.
Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.
My dad was a professional footballer before I was alive. When I was growing up, he was the one who coached and mentored me and helped me to become what I am today. Without his coaching and without his insight and the days and the hours that he put in with me, I wouldn't be the player that I am today.
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.