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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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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 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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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