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.
Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem.
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
It is quite enough if a human being has but one field where he is strong. If a human being were strong in every field it wouldn't be nice for other people, would it?
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
The role of the artist is to not look away.
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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