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.
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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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