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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.

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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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 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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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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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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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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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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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