Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWABy 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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