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….

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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 never to avert one's eyes..

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 truth is in the mystery..

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….

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 tak….

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

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing..

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your ….

Man is a genius when he is dreaming..