I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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