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.
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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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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 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.
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