For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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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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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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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