I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIn 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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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 want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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