Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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