I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
AKIRA KUROSAWAYet 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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 simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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