Beauties Quote by Stephen Hunter

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

— Nagisa Oshima

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

— Stephen Hunter

I'm a fan of Japanese cinema in general.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

— Keith Johnstone

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

— Alexandre Desplat

One of the things that slaps you in the face when you arrive in Japan is their obsession with everything cute.

— Stacey Dooley

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new…

— Jonathan Levine

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting…

— Hugh Grant

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

— Karyn Kusama

When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in,…

— Wallace Shawn