The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe role of the artist is to not look away.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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