It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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