There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.

To love is as natural as the blue sky.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question. "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.