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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 Take And Work With. My Films Come From My Need To Say A Particular Thing At A Particular Time. The Beginning Of Any Film For Me Is This Need To Express Something. It Is To Make It Nurture And Grow That I Write My Script- It Is Directing It That Makes My Tree Blossom And Bear Fruit.

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 Have Put All Of Your Strength Into It And Have Done Your Best To Make It Come Alive. A Film Made In This Spirit Reveals The Hearts Of The Crew.

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 People. They Often Reveal Much About Themselves In A Very Straightforward Way. I Am Certain That I Did. There Is Nothing That Says More About Its Creator Than The Work Itself.

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 Japanese See Self-assertion As Immoral And Self- Sacrifice As The Sensible Course To Take In Life.