Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and its hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.