Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
In my beginning is my end.
A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.
What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?
The basis of everything I do is the universe.
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.
There is nothing new under the sun.
For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme at their core: fear of death and happiness about living.
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
