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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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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