A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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