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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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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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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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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