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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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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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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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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