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.
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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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 role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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 like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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During 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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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