I'd have to watch an Ozu [
Yasujirô Ozu] movie over and over again - say,
Tokyo Story (1953) - and I was hypnotized by the stillness of his frames, his sureness of composition. So I suppose my own aesthetic evolved from looking at certain kinds of pictures - Bergman [
Ingmar Bergman] and Ozu and
John Ford, if you will. [Interview with critic Peter Tonguette]