22 Quotes by Chloe Zhao

The films Sony Pictures Classics has distributed throughout the years have been of great inspiration to me. I'm very excited to find such a great home for 'The Rider.'

The Indian cowboy is such a uniquely American contradiction.

I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.

I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.

I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.

Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

Unfortunately, I think I drifted so much growing up that I don't have a strong sense of identity. I don't feel at home anywhere, and because of that, I think I'm more of a chameleon.