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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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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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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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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