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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.

Akira Kurosawa

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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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Inner Root Something
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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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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Detail Each Mean Must Order Own
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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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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Author Favorite One Still Think Write
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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Substact Take Zero
While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

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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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Camera Direct Else Gaze Rarely Rolling Somewhere
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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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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Aware Being Fix Instantly Something Way
I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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Although Language
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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All Most One Think Write Wrote
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Creator Itself More Nothing
If 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.’
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Anything Nothing Zero
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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Most Parish
The truth is in the mystery.

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The truth is in the mystery.
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Humility
That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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Make Real Something
I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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Detach Gaze Meant Medieval Playwright Warch
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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Find Mean never

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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