For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to 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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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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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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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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