People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.