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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 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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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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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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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