What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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