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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Director Greater Screenwriter Want
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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.
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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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