The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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 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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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