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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.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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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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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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