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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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