Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.

The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.