Donald Richie quotes
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“Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.”
-- Donald RichieSource : Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
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“The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological progression, and there's a safety in that. Whereas if you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.”
-- Donald RichieSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'”
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“Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.”
-- Donald RichieSource : Donald Richie (2007). “A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics”, p.47, Stone Bridge Press
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Source : Song: The Year Of The Cat
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“Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.”
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“Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.”
Source : "Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies". Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
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“Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together”
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