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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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