The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhile the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The truth is in the mystery.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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 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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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