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 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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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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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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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 role of the artist is to not look away.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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