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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 you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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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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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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