Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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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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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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