Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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 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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and 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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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