Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
AKIRA KUROSAWA- 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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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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen 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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
AKIRA KUROSAWAbut ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhile the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMovie 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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIt is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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