Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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