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Chloé Zhao Quotes

born 1982 China

Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting, March 31, 1982) is a Chinese filmmaker, known primarily for her work on American independent films. Her 2020 film Nomadland attracted international recognition and won many awards, including the Academy Award, Directors Guild of America Award, Golden Globe Award, and British Academy Film Award for directing.

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Sometimes life drives you to a place… the road allows you to rediscover yourself.

I have gone through ups and downs in my relatively short career. And one thing I’ve learned is a bit of a cliché, but everything does happen for a reason.

But the truth is, you can never really be happy, because happiness is not an ultimate thing. Happiness is when your expectations are met with reality. If your expectation is constantly fed by the capitalist economy for its own survival, that you always need more, then you can never be as satisfied as the medieval farmer was satisfied with his piece of bread.

I love movies that don’t necessarily tell me how I should feel or how I should think but give me this canvas that I can go away and have a conversation with myself and people around me.

Someone I really respect and have been working with recently said to me, “You have to know that you have power. Know that you don’t have to fight so hard that you’re just on survival mode all the time. People around you are there to help you and they will be there when you fail. It’s okay to ask for help.”

I’m not the kind of filmmaker who just makes films. I have to be in love with my subject matter and want to learn more about it. Someone once said to me that passion doesn’t sustain, but curiosity does. I have to be excited by little things I discover along the way.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chloé Zhao (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.