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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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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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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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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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