By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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