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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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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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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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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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