To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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.
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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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