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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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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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