When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWASomething that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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 films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 truth is in the mystery.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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