If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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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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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 believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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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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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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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