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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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 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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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