Aki's Quotes

#1. Normally, Finns wait for a couple of years and watch Aki's films on television. But it is as though the international reputation of 'The Man Without a Past' caused them to go and see it at the cinema.

Kati Outinen

#2. The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.

Aki Kaurismaki

#3. Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.

Alanis Obomsawin

#4. A student who does not want to learn is like an empty cup that does not want to be filled.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

Whitney Tilson

#6. If you know everything, then how could you have troubles? You said you can see through to the answers to everything. Even though you can see through everything, there are still things you don't know? I found that to be so strange ... Perhaps you can't really see through everything?

Aki

#7. If a dream is as strong as a feeling, is it just as real?

Katsu Aki

#8. Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie

Aki Shimizu

#9. It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

Ravi Zacharias

#10. Real film is light; digital is electricity.

Aki Kaurismaki

#11. God does not lie.

Aki

#12. The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. I love you..easy to say but why it takes my whole lifetime to find the strength to say it?

Aki

#14. When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

Aki Kaurismaki

#15. I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.

Pierre Soulages

#16. That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

John Scales

#17. My favorite song is happy birthday,
as that means there will be cake

Jane Yates