A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWAPeople 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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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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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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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