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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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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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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