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"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
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"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."
Spirit
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
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"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
Delight
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
Film
"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made."
Art
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
Film
"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me."
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"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."
Life
"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film."
Art
"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
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"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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