Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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