I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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