Peter Richardson Quotes on Movies (2 Quotes)

I learnt a lot about Chinese people from this film, ... I don't think we know them very well in this country. Often, they're very closed off in their restaurants they don't speak to us, and we don't speak to them. With this film, for the first time I had a proper feeling for Chinese people, how nice they are, their wryness, their sense of irony - a lot like us really.

If the bare bones of the plot make To Live sound dry or intensely political, in fact it's utterly engrossing. That's because it's so beautifully made, ... Unlike Zhang's later films, it's not at all flashy. He has a very economical way of telling his story. There's very little wasted space in that film, nothing indulgent. It's gripping from start to finish, and all done with such grace, as we watch two ordinary people just trying to get by.