OZU license plate in Buffalo ‘66, (1998)
"I had seen forty Ozu films in Paris in a row. And they were all in Japanese language, which I don’t speak, subtitled in French, which I never want to speak. So I had to watch these films from this slightly detached or outsider point of view. I really loved each one but the one that I remembered the most was a film called Autumn Afternoon, about a father and a daughter on the day of her wedding. I don’t remember anything else about the movie except for the scene when the father comes home from the wedding reception and comes back into his home and we see that he’s basically sentenced to the rest of his life in a certain kind of solitude. Not much happens, but for that one moment everything Ozu did and presented was for that one piece of sensibility, for that one piece of language. And that was certainly good enough for me, it is one of my ten favorite movies of my whole life." - Vincent Gallo