Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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 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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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