There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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 like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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 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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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this 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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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 suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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