I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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