The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
-
-
My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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 KUROSAWA -
He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.’
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWA