Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene and enjoy it, that idea is worth making for the world to see. It can change someone's life.

If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.

Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.