“The fact is that I have not been inside a cinema for almost ten years now. Not that I dislike films — it just so happened that I have not seen any, not even on television, on disc or during flights. It does seem strange even to myself, considering that I spent a lot of time in cinemas when I was young.

Back then Takuma Nakahira was Godard and I was Fellini. Either one of us would always invite the other to go and see something together, which we did a lot, and I have no idea what has pulled me this far away from films and theatres.”