People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.