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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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 can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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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