To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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 role of the artist is to not look away.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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