In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?