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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 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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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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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 truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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 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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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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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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