It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.