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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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