Human Beings Share The Same Common Problems.

During The Shooting Of A Scene The Director’s Eye Has To Catch Even The Minutest Detail. But This Does Not Mean Glaring Concentratedly At The Set. While The Cameras Are Rolling, I Rarely Look Directly At The Actors, But Focus My Gaze Somewhere Else. By Doing This I Sense Instantly When Something Isn’t Right. Watching Something Does Not Mean Fixing Your Gaze On It, But Being Aware Of It In A Natural Way. I Believe This Is What The Medieval Noh Playwright And Theorist Zeami Meant By ‘watching With A Detached Gaze.’

The Japanese See Self-assertion As Immoral And Self- Sacrifice As The Sensible Course To Take In Life.

If You Want To Be A Great Director, Be A Great Screenwriter.

If I Were To Write Anything At All, It Would Turn Out To Be Nothing But Talk About Movies. In Other Words, Take 'myself,' Subtract 'movies,' And The Result Is 'zero.'

To Be An Artist Means To Search, To Find And Look At These Realities. To Be An Artist Means To Never Look Away.