Kolas Yotaka

"It won't be inconvenient to read our name if people treat each other with open minds."

"Politics are politics and art is art. If (Mainland) China restricts its artists and film workers from coming to Taiwan to take part in this grand occasion for the Chinese-speaking world's film industry, then of course it is not Taiwan's loss."

"Today someone wrote to the president's office that I should use a Chinese name instead of Kolas, which is indigenous. Reminds me of when I wrote the Indigenous Languages Act in 2017 and the Chinese press called me a separatist. They'll have to get used to it, Taiwan isn't China."