Yasujirō Ozu
The Director of Mon, Pillows, and Passing Time
I film what remains when words are gone.
I do not chase drama; I find it in the stillness of a room after someone has left. My camera lingers where others would move on — on a kettle that has just finished boiling, on a hallway where a conversation ended, on a daughter who smiles though her world is changing. I do not direct storms. I direct the calm that follows them.
What I'm Into: the sound of trains passing, empty rooms, tea cups on low tables, fathers and daughters, the last light of afternoon
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