Film

“I have always conceived of cinema, the things I’ve made, as having a representation of life.”

“I want to tell them to see films here [pointing to his heart—ed.] because I make films thinking that way.”

“The last sequence is a sort of liebestod.”

“I like to have in all my films a cellula of humanity, a family.”

“Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.”

“What was good for records was good for broadcasting; and what was good for broadcasting will be as certainly good for talkies.”

“I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.”

“I make cinema for people.”

“One thing that is good about a university is that you get to work on different things: motion picture restoration in the morning, and tracking lobsters at the bottom of the ocean in the afternoon.”

“« Il y a un aspect du cinéma japonais que nous ne connaissons pas ici. C'est encore plus impressionnant que l'éclatement du cinéma italien en 1945. »”

“Because, for me, the scariest things in films are people. Not monsters.”

“我们揭开窗子说亮话，我们也是将本求利，我们不要说为国为社会等等好听的话。但是我们认为在贸利当中，可以凭着良心上的主张，加一套改良社会、提高社会道德的力量在影片里，岂不更好？”

“Documentary is only a word, not a magic symbol.”

“電影是大眾宣傳的偉大武器，我們的任務是緊緊把握這種武器。”

“I wanted to prove some more to the world so now I have completed my first movie as a producer, actor, and writer.”

“The new world will not need little pictures. If it needs a mirror, it has the photograph and the cinema.”

“I wanted to make a movie that satisfies an audience's need for a character to be smart.”

“In this film I used almost every avant-garde technique.”