The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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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.
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