The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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