The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.