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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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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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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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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