Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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I 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.
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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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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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