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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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The role of the artist is to not 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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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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