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AKIRA KUROSAWATo 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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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