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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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Although Being Honesty Incapable People Pretend Talking Themselves Total Truth
The role of the artist is to not look away.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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Character Matter May Myself Old Still Unformed
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Beginning Come Film Need Particular Something Thing Time
For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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Able Camera Cinematic Cross Expression Fire Microphone Truly Water
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Give Imagination Memory Power Rise
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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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.
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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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Being Common Depict Film Directing Human Problem Properly Understood
I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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Artist Contribute Detail Each Mean Must Order Own Reality Search Universe

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