Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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 like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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