The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIn a mad world only the mad are sane.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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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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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get 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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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