To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe great appeal of film is its relatability.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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