Mizoguchi Quotes

#1. Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Jean Douchet

#2. My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

Lloyd Kaufman

#3. You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

Kenji Mizoguchi

#4. In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank.

John Addison

#5. Maybe that's how one becomes a killer. Not with decision, but with acceptance.

Heather W. Petty

#6. You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

Mark Lawrenson

#7. What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Joseph Brodsky

#8. People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius ...

Kenji Mizoguchi

#9. Who wants avocado?

Wendy Lustbader