- [In a 1981 interview] In '7, I said I'll be lucky if I direct ten pictures in my life. It looks like I'm on schedule.
- I regard film not as a sacred parchment, but as a pliable canvas.
- I'd have to watch an Ozu [Yasujirô Ozu] movie over and over again - say, Tokyo Story (1953) - and I was hypnotized by the stillness of his frames, his sureness of composition. So I suppose my own aesthetic evolved from looking at certain kinds of pictures - Bergman [Ingmar Bergman] and Ozu and John Ford, if you will. [Interview with critic Peter Tonguette]
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