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.
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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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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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 films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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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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