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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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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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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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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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