I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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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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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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