While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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 films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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