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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.

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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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 believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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’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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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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 films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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