Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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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 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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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