It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is

The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none

Survival is insufficient

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.