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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 this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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