“Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.”

People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That’s why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.

I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I’m anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream.

You know Hachi, your life depends only on ourselves. I’m still convinced about this… But I’ve also learned to accept that people… don’t all become as strong, and it made me kinder than before.

In the world of art, all things are possible.–George from Paradise Kiss

Whatever Yasu loves, I love too. That’s the secret of love.

I never realized how much you hurt.

It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?

Don’t do stuff that freaks him out, like what you’re doing now. Do something that makes him happy.

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart’s content. But I can only suppress my feelings.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.

I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.

I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?

From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.

For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.

I’ll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you’ll die a little death.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

Each new deal is another opportunity.

God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow’s ties, each to the other dearer.

Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.

Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places – Darfur, Rwanda.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.