A Truly Good Movie Is Enjoyable Too.

To Be An Artist Means Never To Avert One's Eyes.

Something That You Should Take Particular Notice Of Is The Fact That The Best Scripts Have Very Few Explanatory Passages. Adding Explanation To The Descriptive Passages Of A Screenplay Is The Most Dangerous Trap You Can Fall Into. It’s Easy To Explain The Psychological State Of A Character At A Particular Moment, But It’s Very Difficult To Describe It Through The Delicate Nuances Of Action And Dialogue. Yet It Is Not Impossible.

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.

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

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. While The Cameras Are Rolling, I Rarely Look Directly At The Actors, But Focus My Gaze Somewhere Else. By Doing This I Sense Instantly When Something Isn’t Right. Watching Something Does Not Mean Fixing Your Gaze On It, But Being Aware Of It In A Natural Way. I Believe This Is What The Medieval Noh Playwright And Theorist Zeami Meant By ‘watching With A Detached Gaze.’