Nagisa Oshima Quotes

#1. We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

William O. Douglas

#2. I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great
there are temptations there which at home you are free from
beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

Emily Dickinson

#3. My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

Nagisa Oshima

#4. To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.

Nagisa Oshima

#5. I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Martin Scorsese

#6. But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.

Herman Melville

#7. Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

Nagisa Oshima

#8. The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

Kat Kaelin

#9. I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

Nagisa Oshima

#10. I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Channing Tatum

#11. It was hard to tell what her weapons were, except for that sort of inane good sense and emotional honesty.

Gregory Maguire

#12. Beware of anyone who describes a human being as something other than human being.

George Monbiot

#13. Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson