Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
AKIRA KUROSAWAPage 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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 root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that 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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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