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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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 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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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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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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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.
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