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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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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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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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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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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 great appeal of film is its relatability.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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