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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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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 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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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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