For 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 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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Yet 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.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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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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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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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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