I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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 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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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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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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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