There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHe is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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.
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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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