When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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 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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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