In Chinese, Wen means "civil" and his brother's name Wu means the
opposite - "martial", reflecting their parents' wish to achieve a
perfect balance in the family a la "yin" and "yang".
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003
Graduated in 1984 from Beijing's Central Academy of Drama, China's most important acting school.
A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married. Maybe she's having a secret affair with the audiences, but officially she still lives at home.
I never control a film. The film controls me.
The big studio films of today are very glamorous but they seem so artificial; they have no smell.