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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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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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