Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIn a mad world only the mad are sane.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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.
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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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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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