By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMy 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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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