For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThere is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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 are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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