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.
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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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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