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.
AKIRA KUROSAWADuring 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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