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.
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
-
-
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
People 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…
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA






