That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMovie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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