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.
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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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 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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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 films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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