If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that 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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