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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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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 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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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