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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.

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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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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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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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