“Fiction film is really different from documentary in this aspect. It is less objective, because the director expresses a subjective point of view with the movie. I would like the movie to look like a documentary, look real.”

—  Zhang Yimou

"No one to be Missed" in Off Screen https://offscreen.com/view/zhang_yimou (April 1999)

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