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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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 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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that 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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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 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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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