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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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