Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.

I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.

A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop

At school, everything feels weird. No one looks at me or pays attention to me, no one says hi, no one asks how I am feeling, and everyone is so quite. It’s like I don’t even exist.

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme