Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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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 Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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