Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
AKIRA KUROSAWASomething that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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