While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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