It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

"Dirty Love" wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent... I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.