How do you define your style?

I have no style, no, not at all. Every drama has its own unique style. I think a director does not work for his or her own style, but for the drama itself. He or she will just represent what he or she has felt. I believe in and respect my own feelings, and at the same time, I hope I will have new experiences. That is my production logic.

Any concepts, theories or formulas set for the modern dramas don't work on me when I am producing, I only believe in my own understanding and feeling, so my favorite things will inevitably appear here and there, now and then, and there is always an inner connection in the dramas.

Why are labeled as avant-garde?

I am not avant-garde. I have always abided by the law of the Golden Mean. Dramas are rich, and I want people to see more patterns. The avant-garde presents a new kind of drama, parting with the traditional ones. I haven't been in the status of breaking from traditional dramas from the very beginning. I don't have the courage or thought.

Then why do so many people say that they don't understand your dramas?

My dramas are neither profound nor difficult to understand. I simply find some thoughts about man in the play that stimulate me, and discover the theme about man when I read it again. I don't mean to pay a tribute to something; much of it is my personal feeling. The producing of Three Sisters Waiting for Godot, for instance, is because I found that there are numerous expectations and a lot of waiting during a lifetime. Love is always considered a forever subject, but I don't think so. It is not love but waiting, an immortal theme, waiting for chances for professional success, waiting for love and waiting for materials. For me, I am waiting for money to produce dramas. I respect my own feelings, and I will show them in the dramas, and that has nothing to do with any politics or 'isms.' The means I have so far applied in different dramas help me convey my feelings. So I believe the audience will understand. However, this is an age when the audience prefers TV plays and mini comic plays to dramas; we should not ask them to understand.

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