If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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.
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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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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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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 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.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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