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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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