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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Akira Kurosawa

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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Believe Carch Detail Director Eye Mean Minute Scene
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Crazy Depression Insane Mad World
To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Art Artist Avert Eye Mean
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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Author Existence Favorite Honesty Human One Still Think Write
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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Dream Genius Inspire Man
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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Being Common Depict Film Directing Human Problem Properly Understood
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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Bad Director Expression Film Fire Good Masterpiece Mediocre Passable Producer Real Same Script
They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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Clean Going Human Important Lose Most Nature Parish Water
The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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Been Believe Character Film Great Hero Honesty Live Real
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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Cinema Combine Everything Filmmaking Life Made Reason Theatre Together Work
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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Being Honest Human Themselves Unable
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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Always Begin Film Germinate Idea Number Project Sprout Start Take Work Writing
By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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Aware Being Fix Instantly Nature Right Sense Something Watch Way
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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Attain Believe Filmmaker First Hope Inspire Make People Place Quality Quantity
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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Anything Movie Nothing Result Talk Turn Writing Zero
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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Book Country Film Idiot Like Literature Long Make Want Wonderful

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