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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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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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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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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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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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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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