What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhat nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
AKIRA KUROSAWAPage 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThey 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.
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
AKIRA KUROSAWAMan is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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