“Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.” — Iris Chang Quote

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.