We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Yes!" He says. "Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.

The writer’s life is a sacred wonder.

One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.

The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.

There is no accounting for human beings.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.