We select certain old stories which have sufficient modern application; I should say, stories which have universal and modern implications. I choose one or t...

We select certain old stories which have sufficient modern application; I should say, stories which have universal and modern implications. I choose one or two out of hundreds. Many are useless for my filmmaking. I am sure that this process of selection must be the same for filmmakers throughout the world.

Kaneto Shindo in Voices from the Japanese Cinema (1975)
Submitted by Simona Enache
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