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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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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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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 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 characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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