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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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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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