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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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