I just came home one day and, in a midlife-crisis sort of way, I told my wife, 'I'm going to run a marathon,' not really understanding what that was. Then I just kind of got into it, and now that I have been running pretty consistently over the past few years, I don't know if it's because I love it or because I hate myself. I just really enjoy it.

No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.

If I was able to be omniscient and look at my career objectively, I'd be very happy.

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it's against my will, we have to do it.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.