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.
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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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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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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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