It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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