Yasujirō Ozu Quotes

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

Yasujirō Ozu

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• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• You basically only discover a new thing once.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • You
  • New
  • Once

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Art
  • Powerful
  • Red

• I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Relationship
  • United States

• Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology's never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that's what's exciting for me. That's what I wanna do.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Software

• I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • True
  • Doing

• We're all equal before a wave.

  

  Laird Hamilton

• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • War
  • Nature

• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Are
  • Inconsistent

• In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • She
  • History

• I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Filmmaker

• I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
  • Point
  • Walk
  • Filmmaker

• ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Night

• The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

  

  Yasujirō Ozu
  • Paper
  • Filmmaker
  • Toilets