Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

My dear, treacherous mother, ” he breathed. “What have you done?

One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.