Good Morning

“One filmmaker that really kind of changed how I thought about film is Ozu and I just don't think I knew you could make films like he does that you could just put the camera somewhere, rely on the composition and the rhythm of it. His storytelling ends up transcending itself... He's one of like the great artists of the 20th century.”

“I'll start with Good Morning because this one kind of made a big impression on me and it was I think the first Ozu movie I have ever seen... There's a lot of fart humor in this movie actually which was unexpected... It's a pretty simple story of the kids want a television set to watch sumo wrestling and stuff... Postwar Japan and the parents are against it... The kids take a vow of silence against them to get their ways and they win and it's just a beautiful film.”

“I have to say this is the film that we remade with Little Men. This was in the '50s and in the '30s he made another film, I Was Born, But..., and they're both about kids who go on strike against their parents. So we took that plot and we wrote our own film, Little Men, and these are better.”

“[Translated] Oh, Good Morning, Yasujirō Ozu. A very rare comedy. Wanting to buy a TV at home, the children's hope. Through two children, it shows the transition period of Japanese society.”