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….

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….

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

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 ….

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away..

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes..

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but f….

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….

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving wor….

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

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

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….

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

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'….

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….

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..