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.’
AKIRA KUROSAWAThat is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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.
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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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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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