I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
AKIRA KUROSAWAbut ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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