Mamoru Oshii Quotes

#1. Blessed are those with a voice.

Mamoru Oshii

#2. What does an actor know about politics?

Ronald Reagan

#3. I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

Sheila Heti

#4. A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog.

Mamoru Oshii

#5. We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

Mamoru Oshii

#6. Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Mamoru Oshii

#7. Do you want to receive a text from Friendly?" he finally asks.

Cynthia Sax

#8. Just because a movie is satisfactory means that the person who makes it is satisfactory. One can make a wonderful movie but still not be a wonderful person. In terms of interviews, it's probably not a good idea, because moviemakers tend not to tell the truth, even when asked a question.

Mamoru Oshii

#9. I wonder where will I go now? The net is vast and indefinite.

Mamoru Oshii

#10. Japanese animation tends to need high budgets. If I have a high budget for a movie, I usually make animation, but if the project has a low budget, then I would ask the producer to consider live action.

Mamoru Oshii

#11. The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

George Orwell

#12. We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

Mamoru Oshii

#13. It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

Bessie Head