The great appeal of film is its relatability.
AKIRA KUROSAWAFor 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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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