Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the d….

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter..

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 ….

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I….

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad scrip….

In a mad world only the mad are sane..

The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. Wha….

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination..

The role of the artist is to not look away..

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself..

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 h….

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

Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero..

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 ….

The great appeal of film is its relatability..

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it..

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly..

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life..

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I'….

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of m….

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….