I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
AKIRA KUROSAWAbut ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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The role of the artist is to not 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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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