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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to 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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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Being Honest Human Themselves Unable
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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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