Quotes About Ozu

#1. If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

David Hare

#2. One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Michael Arndt

#3. In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

Alexander Payne

#4. Flora had not seemed to mind the excessive amount of time their parents demanded from them, which had meant that he could spend more time in his room working on his model houses and less time downstairs in the den, fidgeting through one of his father's interminable Ozu film festivals.

Hanya Yanagihara

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

Kenji Mizoguchi

#6. I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

Yasujiro Ozu

#7. He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

#8. A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

Philip Yancey

#9. Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Sydney Smith

#10. The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.

Douglas Kennedy

#11. In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Bobby Farrelly

#12. The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

Yasujiro Ozu

#13. I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.

Yasujiro Ozu

#14. But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

Anonymous