The great appeal of film is its relatability..

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'….

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

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you ha….

Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If e….

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time..

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..

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….

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

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 ….

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

In a mad world only the mad are sane..

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. Wh….

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 surfa….

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

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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 Russ….