There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

We constantly worry about the fact that we are not the most intelligent and successful ones

The burden is on the sane.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

I would rather stop [making movies] too soon than too late.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.