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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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 characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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 it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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