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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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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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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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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