- When I was young, I read the Bible, just to inform myself of what they are saying in it, knowing that the entity we call God is far beyond books, it's a thing that you feel, it shows up so clear sometimes, just to let you know you are not alone here. The Bible was so disappointing to me, for the way in which they treated women. No God and no human should discriminate females just because they are born females. So I started searching for what other philosophies say and I found that Buddhism is rather a fair one. Especially the teachings about detachment. You are indeed the most free human when you learn not to attach yourself to your belongings, house, fashion, jewelries, cars, nationality, age, humans... [on Buddhism for Enterbrain Publishing]
- Of course Japan is no longer that what I read in books about it. Like the Borg used to say, "...resistance is futile. you will be assimilated...". It has been transformed in an all American colony. I wish Japan would have more respect for its own identity, culture and tradition. So I was deeply thankful that an American movie like The Last Samurai could come unbanned into existence.
- Photography is something like mathematics. When you obtain a perfect geometry of elements inside your frame, every picture will be beautiful or impressive, whatever the subject is. To obtain that geometry you sometimes have to move your lens for only one millimeter, sometimes you have to go in angles unsought before. That geometry strangely resonates inside people, it's a thing we are born to detect. [on her cinematography for Dream Drop (2004)]
- Make yourself a light. Rely upon yourself and don't depend upon anyone else.
- "The staff people are the ones that work the hardest. They come at the shooting place hours before the cast, to set up and leave hours later, after everything has been finely cleaned and packed away. They are the ones to freeze outside in the cold, to be drenched by rain scorched by the sun. But the entire glory goes to director and stars. In the essence, everyone is just a human. How could I accept to have this tiny, tired, overworked assistant girl hold the parasol for me without feeling ashamed in my heart about this unfair world we are living in." [on shooting for Peanuts (2006)].
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