I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked.
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.