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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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 to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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