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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIt is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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