It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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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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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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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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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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