It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.