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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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Afraid Everything Look Nothing Straight
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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Being Honest Human Themselves Unable
Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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Being Common Depict Film Directing Human Problem Properly Understood
The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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Character Matter May Myself Old Still Unformed
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Give Imagination Memory Power Rise
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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Action Character Dialogue Difficult Explain Moment Particular Possible Psychological State
I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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