In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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