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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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 characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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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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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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