The olive tree teaches us that strength comes from deep roots.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

"The best cinematography is the one that you don't notice, because it feels so natural."

孔子说：“君子有九种事情要考虑：看要考虑是否看清楚了、听要考虑是否听清楚了、脸色要考虑是否温和、表情要考虑是否谦恭、言谈时要考虑是否忠诚、工作时要考虑是否敬业、疑问时要考虑请教、愤怒时要考虑后患、见到好处时要考虑道义。”

人は誰でも、自分だけの物語を持っている。それがどんなに小さな物語でも、大切なものだ。