A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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 like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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.’
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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