I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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