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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIt’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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAFor 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.
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWATake me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIt is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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 KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe great appeal of film is its relatability.
AKIRA KUROSAWADuring 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOne of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThey 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWASomething that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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