“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…”

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.

I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.

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.

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.

Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.

The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.

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.

Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.

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.

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.

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.

To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.

What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten.

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?

He has so many creations, and yet He never forgets me, but I only have One Creator, and I’ve forgotten him countless times.