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.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo 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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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 never to look away.
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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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They 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.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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