Lixin Fan

“It’s a big question if I should have two crews in both the countryside and the factory. Creatively, I don’t feel comfortable having a co-director on the other end. I just want to be there with my characters and with my crew to capture what’s happening. I think that’s a conscious creative decision that I would travel back and forth to follow those characters in two different locations over thousands of kilometers. I would take the train back and forth. I think it’s 1400 km (870 mi).”