To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWATake me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 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 can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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