I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThey often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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