Quotes by Rob Marshall

“I wanted a fictional impression of a world as opposed to a documentary vision, which gave me the license to break rules,”

“I saw many actors from around the world: It was so obvious that this was the one woman on Earth who could play this role,”

“[At a news conference in Japan,] not one question was raised, ... She has done a movie there playing a Japanese person, and they had no problem with it.”

“It has been an extraordinary experience. The film is like a child to me. It has grown up and its time to let it go. Its for you, not us.”

“great beauty, was a great dancer and had incredible spirit. There was no question at all when I met her.”

“We wanted to premiere the movie here because it is a love story, and it also a love story about Japan,”

“This story lives in a very specific world - and yet the underlying scene of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds connects to any culture.”

“It was wonderful and scary at the same time,”

“It was very scary to take on a novel that was so loved by so many.”

“I never intended to do this movie as a documentary-style version of the novel. It really is a fable.”