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 KUROSAWAThe films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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