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.
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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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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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