Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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 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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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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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. 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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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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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