From Maine to Japan

From Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, a quote from director Ozu Yasujiro:

"I've always said I don't make anything but tofu...I'm like a tofu shop--so even when making a brand new film, I can't suddenly change to comething completely different. It has to be something like maybe fried tofu or stuffed tofu, but certainly not pork cutlets."

I like creators who know their themes and prefer to make very good tofu as opposed to mediocre pork cutlets, myself. Though I suppose you'll never know if you can make good pork cutlets unless you try...

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