Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.