The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The role of the artist is to not 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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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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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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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