Kitamura Quotes

#1. Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

Sarah Hall

#2. I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

Marjane Satrapi

#3. The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.

Gary Taubes

#4. It may be no substitute ... and might just be an unwanted favor ... but it meant a lot to you, right? You shouldn't break something that's important to you. Don't ever try to erase your most precious feelings, okay?

Hinako Ashihara

#5. Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#6. it was really the most important part of my life

Jillian Brooks

#7. Denying that you're in denial is being in denial and is utterly redundant.

S.L. Naeole

#8. Wherever I make a movie, no matter what size it is, it's always about a straightforward communication with the producer.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#9. We wouldn't believe that the Germans, known as the enlightened world as 'bearers of culture,' were capable of planning and carrying out, in cold blood, without pity, the mass destruction of human beings by industrial means, as if they were bedbugs, flies, or other pests to be exterminated.

Joseph Bau

#10. Griefs assured are felt before they come.

John Dryden

#11. If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#12. People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry the person they hoped to marry, much less live the life they hoped to live, other people invented new dreams to replace the old ones, finding fresh reasons for discontent.

Katie Kitamura

#13. E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back?

HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom!

~Ericsson; Hilary Craven

Agatha Christie

#14. High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

Philip Sidney

#15. I believe Korea is making the best movies. Only in Korea - you can do whatever you want to without any rating system or whatever. They can make world-class karate movies and make lots of money, which is very important.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#16. The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.

Nick Saban

#17. life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction's purpose,

Katie Kitamura

#18. The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

Halle Berry

#19. In the end, what is a relationship but two people, and between two people there will always be room for surprises and misapprehensions, things that cannot be explained. Perhaps another way of putting it is that between two people, there will always be room for failures of imagination.

Katie Kitamura

#20. [O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams

#21. The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#22. Producers say things that they would like to see in the movie but they don't see the full picture. In the end if you ignore everything the producers say, of course, you get fired; but then if you listen to a producer on everything then it's like 'Hey - why don't you direct your own movie?'

Ryuhei Kitamura

#23. It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#24. It was a terrible thing, to love and not know whether you were loved in return, it led to the worst sensations--jealousy, rage, self-loathing--to all these lesser states.

Katie Kitamura

#25. I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#26. Instead of an outer-oriented jihad - defined as "the war against infidels" and carried out by many in those days just as in the present - Rumi stood up for an inner-oriented jihad where the aim was to struggle against and ultimately prevail over one's ego, nafs.

Elif Shafak

#27. Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#28. The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#29. So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#30. Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#31. Mackenzie raises her hand proudly. "I have a bagina."
I smirk. "Yes, you do sweetheart. And someday, it's gonna help you rule the world.

Emma Chase