but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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 don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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