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.
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 KUROSAWAMan is a genius when he is dreaming.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIt is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWAAdding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThat is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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 KUROSAWAThere is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe truth is in the mystery.
AKIRA KUROSAWAbut ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHe is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA